The government of Ukraine will facilitate the growing of potatoes in mass production quantities by developing a special state program, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
"We have to create conditions for the profitable growing of potatoes in [mass] production quantities," he told reporters after a visit to the Institute of Potato Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv region on April 27.
The premier drew attention to the fact that today small private firms and the population grow 98% of the country’s potatoes, and only 2% of potato production is carried out by large agricultural companies.
Azarov noted that within several years Ukraine should return to a 50/50 proportion, when half of total potato output is be produced by the population, and half by big farming enterprises.
According to the premier, the government is planning to facilitate production, logistics development, the construction of store facilities, as well as direct sales to cover interest on credits and the creation of conditions for direct sales.
