The Civil Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection will be completely transferred from the Ministry of Economy to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food in September 2021.

The Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leshchenko said this during a meeting with representatives of the European Business Association, the press service of the EBA reported..

It is noted that it is not planned to break the functionality into several ministries.. The full transfer process is scheduled for September this year..

The Minister noted that the profile for the Ministry of Agrarian Policy is crop production, animal husbandry, processing of agricultural products, areas related to irrigation - gardening and the like, as well as the development of green tourism, viticulture, aquaculture, agricultural machinery.

At the same time, he called the key issues for his department irrigation, soil conservation, state support, a fund for partial guaranteeing loans for small and medium-sized businesses, the introduction of additional financial instruments for capitalizing the agricultural sector, decisions regarding the land bank.

According to Leshchenko, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy is also preparing a presentation of the state agrarian register in September, which, among other things, will help to transfer the circulation of warehouse documents for grain into electronic form, since the current "

In addition, the ministry is preparing measures to support producers and processors of dairy products, since today in Ukraine there is an acute shortage of raw milk. We are also talking about the initiative to reduce the value added tax (VAT) rate for certain areas of the agricultural sector.

On November 4, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers appointed Vladislava Magaletskaya as the head of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. They signed a contract with her on the passage of public service for the period of the quarantine.. LIGABiznesInform informs about it.