MP from UKROP Valentyn Didych took part in offsite meeting of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on issues of agrarian policy and land relations in the village of Trybukhivtsi in Ternopil region.
Besides the MPs, among the participants of the meeting there were the representatives of central executive authorities, Ternopil Regional State Administration, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, heads of farmers’ and other professional non-governmental organizations.
During the event, they discussed the problems of the effective development of agricultural service cooperatives in Ukraine and the ways of their solution, as well as the current state and prospects for the development of horticulture and fruit processing in Ukraine.
Speaking about the prospects of agriculture in Ukraine, Valentyn Didych has noted that its development depends on support of the village: “We are considering the laws on rural areas, and we should remember that this is the future of the village. These are new jobs, a revival of the country in general. After all, our country is rooted not only in rural areas, but in rural families.”
The participants of the meeting have stressed that they will make efforts to improve the legislation in order to intensify rural entrepreneurship and cooperatives, to strengthen the export potential of agricultural products and increase production of fruit and berry crops.
Reference. In 2016, the total area of fruit and berry plantations in Ukraine has increased up to 224.4 thousand hectares. The gross harvest of fruits and berries last year amounted to 2007.7 thousand tons, and the average crop yield was about 101.9 centners/hectare.
