The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine after completing the AgroInvest five-year project will continue cooperation in land relations, soil irrigation and raising of funds to the agricultural sector of Ukraine.
“This project will be finished early next year, but I’m sure that this is only the start, as there are many projects under which we’re interested in cooperation. This is the irrigation projects, agrarian receipt project, agricultural insurance and development of rural territories,” Pavlenko said at the final conference of the AgroInvest project in Kyiv on Nov. 30.
Pavlenko alos said that it is planned to draw up a joint road map for the next several years. The minister said that the main direction of cooperation with USAID experts is the land reform.
USAID mission Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Jed Barton said that there are plans to form another project on cooperation with the Ukrainian ministry.
Barton said that the next joint projects will be named Bread. He did not disclose the details of the project.
AgroInvest is a five-year project (January 2011- January 2016) funded by USAID/Ukraine. The purpose of the project is to provide technical assistance to accelerate and broaden economic recovery in Ukraine through support to the agriculture sector and increase the country’s contribution to global food security.
