There is an unhealthy economic growth in Ukraine. It occurs at the expense of trade in imported goods, and not at the expense of production. This was stated by the People's Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget, Viktor Pynzelyk, on air of Radio NV.

To promote investment cooperation between Ukraine and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the field of agriculture, including animal husbandry and fisheries, and to ensure mutual exchange of information on the agro-industrial complex, the Government approved a respective Memorandum between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the KSA, press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

Now the main sources of water pollution in many countries are not cities or industry, but agriculture, since the most common chemical pollutants found in underground aquifers around the world are agricultural nitrates. This is reported by the press service of FAO, according to kurkul.com.

Over the past 20 years, the domestic poultry industry has achieved the highest growth rates in the sector of agricultural enterprises among other branches of agriculture. This was stated by the head of the department of financial and credit and tax policy of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics", Ph.D. Leonid Tulush, presenting the results of a research conducted by the scientists of the influence of state support on the development of certain areas of agrarian business in Ukraine, the press service of the Institute informed.

It is necessary to spend money not on trifles, but on the creation of a fund for assistance to agriculture in Ukraine. This was told by the ex-Minister of Agrarian Policy of Lithuania Kazys Starkevičius in an exclusive interview "After the market is opened, the land will cost € 5-10 thousand" for AgroPolit.com.

On May 6, 2018 within the framework of the exhibition "AGRO-2018" a business meeting "Finnish agricultural technologies for the Ukrainian market" was held. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Finland to Ukraine Juha Virtanen, Director General of the Ukrainian Agrarian Business Club Taras Vysotskyi, Director of the Agrotechnology Program from Finland Elina Pushkarzhevych and Head of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association Iryna Palamar took part in the discussion of issues of Ukrainian-Finnish cooperation in the field of agro-industrial technologies.

Over the past six years, the EBRD and other investors have invested more than $ 1 billion in the Ukrainian agricultural sector, UNN reported with reference to the FAO report.

German companies are cautiously but with interest observing the market of digitization of agriculture in Ukraine, seeing the prospects of it, Ukrinform reported.

The area of ​​degraded and unproductive arable land in Ukraine exceeds 6.5 hectares (20% of arable land). Every year, due to erosion, almost 300-600 million tons of soil are lost. This is evidenced by the latest data of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, agroday.com.ua reported.

The main reasons for the low level of food security in Ukraine include, in particular, inaccessibility to cheap loans for Ukrainian agricultural producers. This is stated in the material of experts of the "Baker Tilly" company, UNN reported.