The main tasks of the agrarian sector are the formation of deep processing, increasing the production of raw materials for it, expanding the geography of exports of agro-products and food security, Vitaliy Koval said even before his appointment as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food at a parliamentary session on Thursday.
“As a candidate for the post of Minister of agrarian policy and food I guarantee that the agricultural sector – it will be a sector of deep processing, and the Ukrainian land will be the foundation for us to grow products on it, products processed, exported to the maximum number of countries, ensure food security, and the agricultural complex has become truly agro-industrial ”, – he said.
Koval urged MPs to support all initiatives aimed at transforming Ukraine into an agro-industrialized country, so that “agrarian of Ukraine” would sound proudly around the world”.
Among the greatest challenges facing the agrarian sector, he named ensuring foreign currency earnings, growth of the agro-economy and restoring the confidence of agrarians in the government.
“The programs that we approved with you, we must fill not only with budgetary funds, but also with the funds of our partners so that the products were competitive and we could ensure food security on all continents,” Koval stressed.
At the same time, he promised to restore the subjectivity of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy so that the agro-industrial complex would be a driver of development of the entire economy, especially in related machine-building and industries that will allow import substitution.
Koval emphasized that he would pay special attention to the livestock sector.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday appointed as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food ex-head of the State Property Fund Vitaly Koval. His candidacy was supported by 251 people’s deputies. Before that, since September 9, 2019, he headed the Rivne regional state administration, and from February 24, 2022 he headed the Rivne regional military administration.
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