The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has simplified the procedure for obtaining loans from foreign banks for Ukrainian companies and citizens. Now this process requires less time, thanks to full automation and the refusal of the procedure for reviewing applications and analysis of all documents, the press service of the NBU reported, according to agroday.com.ua.

Over the period of December 2017 and January-April 2018, under the budget program "Financial Support for Agricultural Producers" in the direction of "Partial Compensation for the Value of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment of Domestic Production", agrarians purchased 953 units of machinery and equipment for a total cost of 354.6 million UAH (including VAT). 674 agricultural producers in the amount of 70.7 million UAH received compensation from the state. The Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association received such information from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy as of June 12, 2018 №37-13-15/15296.

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.

In June the commodity market in Ukraine was somewhat balanced. Prices for farm raw materials ceased to decline, and prices for milk were revised only at the beginning of the month, INFAGRO reported.