Ukraine. Agriculture and food ministry: Grain logistics modernization planned for 2013-2014

A meeting of the Public Council under the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food considered the basic measures provided in the programme aimed at intensifying the development of the economy in 2013-2014 and is directly related to the agricultural sector. In particular, it is about modernization of grain logistics and Ukraine's place in the world grain market, the ministry said in a statement.

"To ensure the positive pace in 2013-2014 it is planned to implement large-scale investment projects in livestock, improve the mechanisms of state support to purchase modern domestic agricultural machinery, and increase the area of perennial crops, create raw material zones for the development of production of safe and quality food," said Serhiy Petrenko, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Development of the Agrarian Market.

Special attention will be paid to the renewal and modernization of the irrigation system in the south of Ukraine, development of agricultural market infrastructure, creating a base of the Agrarian Fund of Public Joint Stock Company "Agrofinfond", construction and reconstruction of bakeries and the reopening of distilleries.

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