KYIV. Aug 29 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has stated it is planned to foresee UAH 1 billion for a program to support farmers in the draft national budget for 2018.
“Separately, we will spend UAH 1 billion next year on targeted support to Ukrainian small farms,” the head of government said in an interview with the Ukrainian Radio.
According to the premier, the agrarian sector together with processing forms about 17% of GDP.
As reported, earlier Groysman announced the intention to increase financing for the program of partial compensation of the cost of Ukrainian agricultural machinery to UAH 1 billion in the draft national budget for 2018.