Ukraine: Agrarian Committee pressures the government to implement support for cotton producers

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine is set to propose an amendment to the state budget for 2025, aiming to allocate funds for cotton production. This announcement was made by the ministry's head, Vitaliy Koval, during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada. The exact funding details and implementation deadlines have not yet been disclosed. The proposal follows up on a previous initiative that sought UAH 300 million for cotton cultivation support, which remained unsupported in the initial 2025 budget.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine will prepare and submit for consideration by the government and the Verkhovna Rada an amendment to the state budget for 2025 on the allocation of funds to support cotton production. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Vitaliy Koval, during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, and Stepan Chernyavsky, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy, reported on his Facebook page. S. Chernyavsky noted that at the last meeting of the agrarian committee during V. Koval's report for 2024, he addressed the minister with two important questions. First, why did the minister, together with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, not defend his amendment to the 2025 budget on the allocation of UAH 300 million for state support for cotton cultivation in Ukraine? Second, does the minister support the initiative to promptly prepare a new amendment with appropriate funding? "Unfortunately, the ...