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Program to help farmers with sunflower seeds closed ahead of schedule due to excess of applications – Agrarian Policy Ministry
KYIV. March 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities (AGRO) and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine have stopped the registration of Ukrainian micro-, small- and medium-sized agro-enterprises (MSMEs) to receive assistance in the form of sunflower seeds for the future sowing season.
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy on Friday, it was originally planned to accept applications for receiving sunflower seeds through the Public Agrarian Register from March 1 to March 14, 2023, but two days after the announcement of the program, the number of applicants for assistance reached 1,200, as a result of which it was decided to stop the acceptation of documents.
“Initially, the program was designed to distribute sunflower seeds for planting on an area of 28,000 hectares. Due to the fact that two days after the program was announced, more than 1,200 agricultural producers applied for it, the USAID AGRO program decided to buy and distribute seeds for another 14,000 hectares. Applications to the Public Agrarian Register for this area of the program are closed,” the Ministry of Agrarian Policy said in the statement.
At the same time, until March 14, the acceptance of applications under the program for obtaining mineral fertilizers for winter and spring crops continues. Requirements for applicants and other conditions of the program remain unchanged.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy recalled that producers of grain and oilseeds with a land bank of 5-500 hectares, whose farms are located in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson or Chernihiv regions can participate in the project for the distribution of 6,000 tonnes of mineral fertilizers,.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy said that applicants can choose one of two types of assistance: mineral fertilizers for feeding winter crops or mineral fertilizers for the main and pre-sowing application for spring crops. At the same time, program participants shall not conduct economic activities in the occupied territories, in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus and shall not be subject to Ukrainian sanctions.
In addition, participants shall independently ensure the delivery of fertilizers or seeds from regional distribution points to their land plots.
