Ukrainian agricultural producers in 2018 received almost 634 million UAH of subsidies. This is evidenced by the interim results of the implementation of state support programs, which were presented on September 19 by First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martyniuk at the government meeting, agroportal.ua 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.

On August 10, the President of Ukraine signed the draft law "On Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine and Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning the Stimulation of the Establishment and Operation of Family Farms" No. 6490-d of May 18, 2018. The authors of the bill were People's Deputies of the Agrarian and Tax Committees of the Verkhovna Rada Ukraine.

39.1% of all land is under the supervision of agricultural enterprises. Farmers dominate 10.4% of all agricultural land, 38.2% - in ownership and use of the population. This is with reference to the dissertation of Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Maksym Martyniuk, biz.liga.net noted. 

According to the Hydrometeorological Center, on August 6, an emergency (5th class) level of fire danger will prevail in the Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Rivne, Poltava, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions. This is reported by the State Emergency Service, kurkul.com reported.

The Cabinet of Ministers has supplemented the list of unified social tax payers with a new category - members of the farm, if they are not subject to insurance on other grounds. This is reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, according to agropolit.com.

On May 9 there were protests of farmers organized by the Polish Trade Union throughout the country. They demand restrictions on food imports, compensation for damages caused by weather conditions and ASF, pigua.info reported.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will provide 2,75,000 households located along the buffer zone of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions ith young poultry within the framework of humanitarian assistance, agronews.ua reported.

In Ukraine there is a tendency of increasing the number of farms.

In the new program of providing housing subsidies, the Government took into account the interests of certain categories of the population, in particular, farmers, Teplo.gov.ua reported.