The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), intends to develop agrarian diplomacy, said Vitaliy Koval, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, after a meeting with Viorel Gutsu, head of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.
“The goal of agrarian diplomacy is to train specialists to promote Ukrainian agricultural products on international markets on the basis of specialized higher education institutions. We are talking about the so-called agrarian attaches at diplomatic and trade missions abroad,” the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy quoted Vitaliy Koval as saying.
The Ukrainian minister added that the FAO team had confirmed its interest in implementing such a project.
The ministers also discussed the possibility of allocating grants for Ukrainian farmers to automate production processes and increase the volume of value-added products, providing livestock farmers with generators, switching to gas generators, attracting international experts to adapt the Ukrainian agricultural sector to European requirements, and climate programs for Ukraine.
