This year, farmers from the frontline regions will be able to receive free corn seeds for the sowing season
Kyiv • UNN
The state will provide large frontline farms with corn seeds per farm for sowing 25 hectares as part of the USAID AGRO initiative for the spring 2024 sowing campaign.
The state will provide large farms from the frontline areas with corn seeds free of charge. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Ministry of Reintegration.
Details
Each participant in this program will be able to receive up to 25 sowing units per farm, which will be enough to sow 25 hectares. Applications will be accepted until April 21.
Agricultural producers with 5 to 500 hectares under cultivation, registered as legal entities or individual entrepreneurs, will be able to receive assistance. In particular, family farms
Assistance will be provided to farmers from the frontline and affected areas (excluding the TOT) in the following regions:
- Dnipropetrovska,
- Donetsk,
- Zaporizhzhya,
- Kyiv (Bucha, Vyshgorod, Fastiv and Brovary districts),
- Luhansk,
- Mykolaivska (Mykolaiv and Bashtanka districts),
- Sumy (Shostka, Konotop, Sumy, Okhtyrka districts),
- Kharkiv,
- Kherson,
- Chernihiv (Chernihiv, Koryukiv, Novgorod-Siverskyi districts).
To receive seeds, farmers need to register in the State Agrarian Register in the "Available Programs" section - USAID AGRO Dekalb Corn Seeds, 2024
Addendum
In total, the U.S. Government will provide 15,756 seed units to farmers for this year's spring sowing season as part of the AGRI-Ukraine initiative and Bayer. The initiative is being implemented through the USAID AGRI Program.
The seeds are scheduled to be distributed at the end of April 2024.
Recall
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a procedure to compensate farmers for 80% of the costs of humanitarian demining of their own or leased agricultural land, which aims to speed up the cleanup of contaminated areas and enable businesses to resume operations in the de-occupied territories.
