The basis of the agrarian sector should be formed by medium-sized and small farming and cooperative farms, rather than a mega-holding - the chairman of the USBA, Iryna Palamar

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 11:01

According to the data of the last year, as many as 17 agro enterprises entered the TOP-100 of the largest enterprises of Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data submitted by them to the State Fiscal Service for 2016, as reported by "BusinessCensor".

So, the TOP-100 includes the following Ukrainian agricultural companies:

Andrii Verevskyi’s company Kernel-Trade (Kernel) took the sixth place with revenues of 42.61 billion UAH;

31st place - "AT Cargill" - 17.09 billion UAH;
35th place - "Suntrade" (Bunge) - 16.12 billion UAH;
36th place - LLC "NF Trading Ukraine" (Khimprom Dmitro Firtash for the sale of fertilizers) - 15.92 billion UAH;
39th place - "Eridon" (SZR from Serhii Krolevts) - 15.42 billion UAH;
40th place - "NIBULON" (company of Oleksii Vadaturskyi and son Andrii) - 15.32 billion UAH;
49th place - "State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine" - 13.10 billion UAH;
50th place - "Myronivskyi plant for the production of cereals and mixed fodders" (MHP Yurii Kosiuk) - 13.10 billion UAH;
51st place - Myronivskyi Hliboproduct - 12.72 billion UAH;
61st place - ADM Trading Ukraine - UAH 10.65 billion;
65th place - "Syngenta" (Syngenta, Switzerland) - 10.11 billion UAH;
72nd place - OJSC "Azot" (Khimprom Firtash for the production of nitrogen fertilizers) - 9.14 billion UAH;
78th place – “Rise-Maksimko” (UkrLandFarming of Oleh Bakhmatiuk) - 8.05 billion UAH;
79th place - Delta Wilmar CIS (India) - 7.95 billion UAH;
83rd place - "Vinnitsa poultry factory" (MHP) - 7.73 billion UAH;
86th place - Myronivska poultry farm (MHP) - 7.32 billion UAH;
93rd place - Subsidiary enterprise "AgrocentrEurokhim-Ukraine" (Subsidiary enterprise "EuroChim" Russia, Andrii Melnichenko) - sold fertilizers at 6.67 billion UAH.

"These data once again confirm that the agricultural sector is the country's driver of the Ukrainian economy and has great prospects," comments Iryna Palamar, head of the USBA. - Agrarians already give about 14% of the country's GDP and over 41% of exports. Over the past 5 years, the share of agrarians in the national economy has grown at least twice. Therefore, the state should strongly support this sector of the economy. This year, the state budget to support the agricultural industry allocated 7.3 billion UAH, of which - 4 billion UAH for livestock and 1 billion UAH - for a program to support small farms. I think the last point is extremely important, because if large farms are rapidly developing and become pillars of the Ukrainian economy, then the average and small farmers or private entrepreneurs today are extremely limited in the possibilities of developing competitive products, access to modern technologies and markets. That is why state support (compensation for the purchase of equipment, equipment, seed, etc., cheaper loans, etc.) will help stimulate their development, and encourage private producers to join cooperatives. This will not only improve the quality of products and make it competitive, but, most importantly, to save the village from extinction.

The agrarian sector should not be formed only by super-large agroholdings. In all developed countries, it is the medium and small farms, as well as cooperatives, that form the lion's share in the structure of the agricultural sector. To this end, Ukraine needs to solve several problems: it is not a one-off, but a complex and consistent multi-year state support for farming and cooperative farms, access to markets, removal of all kinds of bureaucratic barriers.
For example, now the extremely serious problem of small and medium-sized businesses of farmers is the massive blocking of tax invoices, which entrepreneurs, especially real manufacturers, have been facing for several months. Every day, small and medium-sized businesses lose money, the work of enterprises is virtually suspended!
 

Thanks to the active position and work of individual experts and politicians, the public and the Association of Livestock Breeders (leaving the press conference, participating in protests, meetings of the Verkhovna Rada on this issue, appeals to government officials), on December 7, the state tried to take a little side of business when the Rada made amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine, than a temporary test regime for suspending the registration of tax invoices in the Unified Register of Tax Invoices was introduced. But it is difficult to call a solution to the problem of blocking tax invoices. In fact, the state is trying to divert the attention of business and deceive it.

According to the adopted amendments, tax invoices that were blocked from July 1, 2017 will be registered only on January 2, 2018. That is, the business is still waiting for something until January 2 of next year, until it unlocks tax invoices, and this time to incur financial losses, lose customers, reputation in the market and calmly watch how his business is being destroyed.

In addition, not everyone will be lucky that his tax invoices will be unlocked. Those invoices for which, as of December 1, 2017, business entities did not submit explanations and documents filed an appeal because of a refusal to register, they will not be unlocked.

Everything for business is only a temporary and partial solution. Temporary, because business was given only 2 months (January-February) of oxygen for a simplified registration of tax invoices, and those that need to wait until some of the enterprises are closed.

Partial, because the main problem, which blocks the tax invoices, as the experts of the Association of Livestock Breeders have repeatedly said, is the system of assessment (criteria) of the degree of risks led by the order of the Ministry of Finance No. 567 of June 13, 2017, remained unsolved. The state had to admit its mistake that it adopted an imperfect and not professionally prepared system for assessing the degree of risk of tax invoices in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Finance No. 567 of June 13, 2017, destroying the Ukrainian business and canceling it, but it did not.

Now the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine should prepare a resolution instead of the current order of the Ministry of Finance No. 567 of June 13, 2017, and prepare new criteria for blocking tax bills. We, the business, demand that the preparation of such a resolution take place within the framework of the working group, so that small and medium businesses are allowed to attract lawyers, economists, accountants and those professionals who know how business and production work ".
 

 

 

English

Read more