Ministry of Agrarian Policy began preparing American Trade and Investment Mission to Ukraine

Vladyslava Rutytska, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for European Integration, announced that the Ministry had begun preparing the American Trade and Investment Mission to Ukraine while commenting on the results of a meeting with Darrell Upshaw, the head of Office of Trade Capacity and Development of the United States Department of Agriculture, and Dwight Wilder, the Agricultural Attaché of the Foreign Agriculture Service at the United States Embassy to Ukraine. The discussion dealt with the preparation for the upcoming American Trade and Investment Mission to Ukraine headed by Michael Scuse, the United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.

“The United States is a strategic partner for Ukraine. The Trade and Investment Mission is another chance and also a challenge for the Ukrainian agriculture sector. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy presents several priority directions which are the most attractive for investors:

-modernization of irrigation systems in the South of Ukraine;

-development of agricultural logistics, in particular, the river logistics;

-construction and updating of agricultural infrastructure (transportation, storage, transhipment and port logistic of agricultural products);

-implementation of advanced technologies in the agricultural industry (including the development of information technologies in the agricultural sector);

-processing industry, manufacturing of products with high added value;

-development of small and medium farms;

-cooperation in the sphere of agricultural machinery and equipment for processing, and the leasing of agricultural machinery;

-cooperation in the sphere of the seed industry and plant breeding;

-cooperation in the sphere of livestock production and genetics.

These are the most promising directions, and where the applied investments should triple the efficiency”, the Deputy Minister stressed.

Moreover, the Deputy Minister noted that, currently, Ukraine and the USA had accorded 15 veterinary certificates, thus allowing the countries to increase the volume of trade.

In turn, the American part mentioned the positive progress of agricultural sector reforms and assured of its readiness to support the agricultural sector of Ukraine.

The American Trade and Investment Mission is expected to be held on June 14-16, 2016.

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