Cattle breeders are able to invest more than 2 billion UAH in the development of the industry

According to the results of a survey conducted by the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association, enterprises for the production of livestock products require funds for the construction and reconstruction of their complexes for a total of 2048250000 UAH and are able to invest these funds in the event of their allocation by the Government (as planned by the draft Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2016 year ".

The survey was conducted among 54 livestock enterprises throughout Ukraine (see Appendix below), each of which provided information on investments in fixed assets necessary for the development of their livestock complexes.

As is known, the draft Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2018" provides for an increase in the financing of the livestock sector by 13.5 times. In 2017, according to the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2017", funding under the budget program "State Support to Livestock" is 170 million UAH, and in 2018 the figure should grow to 2.3 billion UAH.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as reported on October 3 at a meeting of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the consideration of the draft Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2018" on the financing of the agricultural sector, additional funding for the livestock sector is planned to partial reimbursement of the cost of construction and reconstruction of livestock farms, the purchase of breeding stock and the reduction in the cost of interest on loans to builders The reconstruction of cattle-breeding complexes and milking parlors.

In addition, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman said at the International Economic Forum Toronto Global Forum in Canada, where he headed the Ukrainian business delegation, which was also joined by the chairman of the USBA Iryna Palamar. So, during his speech at the forum, he told about the Ukrainian reforms and noted that one of the priority directions of Ukraine's innovation activity in 2017-2021 will be, among others, the agro-industry. The prime minister reported that in the state budget for 2018 to support livestock production it is planned to allocate more than 2 billion UAH.

However, then some representatives of agrarian associations do not support this decision. In particular, at the above-mentioned meeting of the Committee of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy Mykhailo Sokolov, deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, spoke against increasing the financing of the livestock sector in 2018 and noted that the livestock farmers will not be able to absorb these funds. It is hard not to agree with it.
That is why, in order to avoid unfounded and biased statements, the Association of Livestock Breeders of Ukraine conducted this survey among livestock enterprises in order to collect real factual information about the real needs and opportunities of livestock farmers to finance the livestock sector.

"We very much hope that the planned financing of animal husbandry will be preserved during consideration in the parliament," says Iryna Palamar. - The livestock sector needs state support: for the construction or reconstruction of pig farms, fattening centers for bulls, construction of embryonic centers for cattle, and others. We were able to verify it once again by conducting this survey. The livestock keepers have enough problematic issues or projects that require funding from the state budget, so, obviously, the industry will be able to invest an additional 2 billion UAH in 2018. "

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List of farms that participated in the survey: