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.

According to the Draft Law "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2019"* No. 9000 of 15.09.2018, which was submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, it is proposed to allocate 14 560 052.5 thousand UAH for financing the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food. This is 405 360.80 thousand UAH or 2% more than in 2018, which provides for the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2018"**.

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.

Yuliia Tymoshenko said that it is possible to reduce public debt in three steps. One of such steps should be the reduction of subsidies to certain branches of the agrarian business, in particular - poultry farming. This was announced by the leader of the "Batkivshchyna" party in Kyiv during the discussion platform "New Economic Course" at the Forum "New Deal of Ukraine", kurkul.com reported.

State support for the agricultural sector should be diversified in directions and clearly spelled out for years to come. This was stated by people’s deputy Leonid Kozachenko, agrotimes.net reported.