Ukraine and Poland are negotiating a bilateral agreement that would set conditions on trade in some agricultural goods, Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski said on Feb. 15, according to the Wprost magazine. On a technical level, the talks are at the final stage, and quota levels for some agricultural goods coming from Ukraine to Poland […]
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, has stated that Ukraine will not abandon agricultural subsidies as part of the EU accession negotiations. Source: Stefanishyna in a comment ot European Pravda Details: Stefanishyna commented on a Reuters report citing a Ukrainian official who claimed that during the negotiations to join the […]
KSNF/KODE — Missouri Senator Jill Carter says she’s hoping a bill she filed will help farmers and protect the environment. Carter says the legislation comes as the result of concerns from residents, like those forming the “Stop Land Use Damaging Our Ground and Environment,” or SLUDGE committee. Senate Bill 908 would require any basin or […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has begun to advocate certain safety measures against Ukrainian imports for those products that are particularly important to the interests of French farmers. Source: Politico, reported by European Pravda Details: The ongoing violent protests by French farmers are pushing the “major players” in Macron’s team to blame Brussels for some of […]
More than 21,000 hectares of agricultural land were inspected in Ukraine in January, new mine action operators were certified, and access has been granted to state mine action standards. Source: press service of the Ministry of Economy Details: Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, noted that bomb disposal experts achieved good […]
One man is in critical condition and agricultural warehouses in Mykolaiv Oblast were damaged after Russia attacked southern Ukraine with Shahed kamikaze drones, Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces reported on Telegram. Seven Shahed 131/136 drones were eliminated by Ukraine’s air defense — five in Mykolaiv Oblast, and two in Kirovohrad Oblast. Read also: 31 civilians killed, […]
Entrepreneurs who violate export regulations for agricultural food products to certain European Union countries will have their verification status suspended for 6 months, Ukraine’s Agrarian Policy Minister, Mykola Solskyi, announced. The government has tightened the rules around exporting certain agricultural products to prevent abuse of the system., he announced during an online meeting with his […]
Ukraine remains among the top three suppliers of agricultural products to the EU, even though the exports dropped to an almost pre-invasion level in autumn 2023, the European Commission’s report said. As one of the world’s leading agricultural producers and exporters, Ukraine’s trade is complicated by Russia’s threats to the Black Sea maritime transport, which […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has detained the founder of one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural firms, the SBU reported on Telegram on Jan 5. SBU officers detained the suspect in his son’s apartment in Kyiv, where he was hiding and planning to escape to Russia. A food company owned by the suspect had reportedly been operating […]
Poland has received a letter from the European Commission demanding that the indefinite embargo on duty-free imports of certain agricultural products from Ukraine be lifted. Source: Czesław Siekierski, the Minister of Agriculture of Poland, reported this to the Polish media Quote from Siekierski: “We have received a letter from the European Commission demanding that the […]
Ukraine’s agricultural exports soared to 7.18 million tons in December 2023, a significant jump from 5.46 million tons in November, the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy Ministry reported on Jan. 2. Only March 2022 surpassed it, at 7.45 million tons. Read also: Ukraine approves three new industrial parks to boost growth prospects The boost was attributed to […]
BOSTON — A dozen bills heard by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Agriculture throughout the course of the last year could benefit Massachusetts farms while also increasing food security, protecting farmlands and even offering financial support to the state’s lobster industry and fisheries. In a file photo, Kelsey White of Holden and her daughter, Finley, […]