The Association of Farmers of Ukraine unanimously proposed to the Cabinet the candidacy of Sheremet Viktor Vasilievich for the post of responsible for farming in Ukraine.
Today, the government approved his position, the official will start work from the next week.
Earlier in the Cabinet said that in the new draft budget for agriculture will be allocated an additional one billion hryvnia.
In the EU, recently adopted new legislation giving the Ukrainian wheat, meat, dairy and livestock industry additional preferences in European markets.
Such measures will allow Ukrainian agrarian products not only to feel competition from European farmers, but also to prove themselves in Western markets.
As reported in URA-Inform, recently the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at the meeting approved the concept of the development of farms and agricultural operations in Ukraine.