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The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine has dismissed three deputies board chairman of public joint-stock company State Food-Grain Corporation and appointed two deputies, according to the corporation's report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.

The report says that the decision was made on April 5, 2013.

Andriy Barsuk was dismissed from the post of first deputy board chairman. No replacement has been appointed to the post.

The ministry appointed Serhiy Kapuzo and Roman Nasirov deputies board chairman, to replace Andriy Davydovych and Oleksandr Martynenko. Kapuzo earlier was an advisor to the Ukrainian president and Nasirov was an executive director of Renaissance Capital.

The ministry also appointed Oleh Malych a member of the supervisory board of the corporation (an advisor of the Ukrainian prime minister) and re-appointed six members: Bahrat Akhidzhanov (the director of the debt and financial policy and accounting department of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry), Serhiy Karasevych (the head of the agrarian policy, land utilization and food safety section of the market development department of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry), Oleksandr Demyanenko (the deputy head of the property reformation section of the privatization process planning and property reformation department of the State Property Fund of Ukraine), Halyna Pakhachuk (the director of the debt and international financial policy department of the Finance Ministry) and Denys Kireyev (the first deputy board chairman of Oschadbank).

As reported, in January-February 2013 the ministry has conducted staff reshuffling in the corporation. In particular, Ihor Yakubovych, who earlier headed the Agrarian Fund of Ukraine, was appointed board chairman.

The corporation has a chain of branches – grain storage facilities, flourmills, fodder factories and a cereals factory. The 44 subdivisions of the corporation can store a total of 3.46 million tonnes of grain, including the grain handling capacities of Odesa and Mykolaiv ports of 2.38 million tonnes of grain cargo per year.