The Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association continues to analyze how agro-subsidies are developed in 2018. This time we will talk about livestock subsidies.
The state partially compensates to farmers the costs of agricultural equipment and equipment of domestic production, which they acquired in 2017, but for reasons beyond their control, did not receive the promised payments, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine reported according to agroday.com.ua.
The government can increase the amount of state support of the agricultural sector in 2019 to 12.4 billion UAH, transferring unpaid budget funds to a special fund. Experts of the agro-industrial complex made such an initiative during a round table on the topic “Budget cake-2019: opportunities and challenges,” agropolit.com reported.
The program of state support of farmers, which was launched this year, should be continued for subsequent years. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groisman during the Hour of questions to the government in parliament, agronews.ua reported.
In early August the lowest prices for chicken in domestic supermarkets were recorded – 82 UAH per kg. This is evidenced by the data of the inflation barometer for the period January-August 2018, UNN reported.
During the meeting of the Government relevant changes were made to clarify the procedure for using funds under the budget program 2801540 "State support of the livestock sector" in order to effectively use the funds provided for in the state budget for 2018.
The agrarians are sure that the subsidy for each head of livestock proposed by the government is non-transparent and ineffective. This, in particular, was said by agrarians of Krasnohradskyi district of the Kharkiv region, sigmatv.net.ua reported.
More than 3 thousand people who have already applied for a grant to breed young cattle will get money very soon. Such financial support for the owners of subsidiary farms was the result of the fruitful work of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association, together with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the Government.
As of May 1, 2017 the Department for Agro-Industrial Development of the Kyiv Regional State Administration received applications for a subsidy for the cattle stock from 104 agricultural enterprises of the region. This is reported by the press office of the Kyiv Regional State Administration according to agravery.com.
In the first quarter of 2017 the production of certain types of agricultural livestock products in households fell by almost 3% compared to the same period last year.