Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman does not intend to serve large landowners in the preparation of land reform, which will allow buying and selling agricultural land. He stated this during an hour of questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada, agropolit.com reported.
1 hectare of land in Ukraine should cost $ 400-600. This was reported by Doctor of Economics, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences Oleksandr Shpychak, АgroРolit.com said.
Introduction of the agricultural land market in Ukraine will create a powerful layer of the middle class in rural areas. This was said in the report of the World Bank's conference on land relations and poverty by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Olena Kovalova in Washington. She noted that the government continues to maintain the abolition of the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land in the list of priority tasks and is working to develop the infrastructure of the future land market, the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, within the framework of the deepening of decentralization, transferred the agricultural land beyond the settlements to the first seven unified territorial communities (the UTC).
The Verkhovna Rada rejected the bill "On Amendments to the Tax Code and Some Legislative Acts to Promote the Creation and Operation of Small-scale Farms and Deconcentration of Authorities in the Sphere of Land Relations."
The bill on the turnover of agricultural land, the adoption of which is necessary for the introduction of the land market in Ukraine, will be submitted to the parliament in February-March next year, said the president of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation (UAC), People’s Deputy Leonid Kozachenko
The main reason for the extension of the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land is the lack of a forecast for the development of the market after the opening. This view was expressed by a member of the council of the association "Land Union of Ukraine" Serhii Bilenko during the discussion on "Incentives for farmers: interesting opportunities and pitfalls of state aid", reports the correspondent of AgroPolit.com.