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2010-02-25

BRAAC experts contributed to the conference “Commercial horticulture in Ukraine”

Kyiv, 25 February 2010 – BRAAC experts contributed to the conference “Commercial horticulture in Ukraine” hosted by the Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business (UCAB). The problems of production, processing and sales of vegetables, fruits and plants in Ukraine were discussed during the conference. The majority of participants stressed that Ukraine has mostly favourable background for the development of the sector.

Oleksandr Sikachyna, BRAAC rural development and agriculture analyst, voiced preliminary assessment of the structure of vegetables’ production in 2009. Whereas production of tomatoes, cucumbers grew, the production of carrot, beet, cabbage and onion decreased by average 20-30%. Combined with storage problems, this may have caused quite high season price growth in Ukraine in early 2010.

 

Vitaliy Zhygadlo, BRAAC international integration analyst reported on structure of import and export of the horticulture products split by countries and goods classification. The export of vegetables’, fruits and nuts allowed receiving by Ukrainian companies a revenue of more than $ 330 millions in 2009. In the general export the share of these products amounted to less than 4%, which is not adequate to the potential of the sector. Moreover, during the season price growth an increased import of horticulture was noticed. Hence, to cover the import of vegetables and root crops Ukraine has spent around $ 80 millions in 2009.

The presentations “Production of horticulture products in Ukraine in 2009” and “Trends of foreign trade in horticulture in 2009” may only be downloaded in Ukrainian.

For more information please contact Mr. Andriy Zayika, BRAAC Communication officer, at +38044 253 5866 or e-mail

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