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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych expects the government to take all necessary measures to prevent the purchase price of grain from the new harvest from dropping, and approves of the cabinet's plan to use the Agrarian Fund to achieve this, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

"The president has drawn our attention to the necessity of taking additional measures to prevent the price of grain from falling, so that farmers can sell grain from the new harvest at a fair market price," the premier said, opening a meeting of the government in Kyiv on Wednesday.

According to Azarov, the president supported the government’s actions in using the Agrarian Fund to stabilize the price situation.