The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine is disappointed with a draft law on the national budget for 2013 proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with regard to the financing of agriculture.
“We’re frankly disappointed [by the draft budget]. You get the
impression that they don’t listen to us,” the director of the agrarian
market economic development department at the ministry, Vitaliy Sabluk
said at the fourth conference entitled “Doing Agribusiness in Ukraine:
Prospects for 2013” in Kyiv on Thursday.
He said that it was unlikely that the ministry will manage to realize
large-scale projects on supporting the sector with such a level of
budget financing.
Sabluk said that the ministry expects that Ukrainian farmers will support it in the issue.
President of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB) Alex Lissitsa
said at the conference that farmers also believe that expenses on
agriculture proposed by the government are not enough.
He said that the UCAB, jointly with the Agrarian Union and
Association of Farmers and Landowners on December 7, 2012 plan to
officially address Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the cabinet
asking them not to pass the current bill on the national budget for
2013.
According to the draft law on the national budget for 2013, the
expenses of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry are reduced by UAH
2.6 billion, or 30% compared to the financing in 2012.
