Ukraine needs to increase domestic production of garlic - expert

Unlike most vegetables, the area under garlic in Ukraine is not growing. Although growing garlic can be high-margin. This was reported by Serhiy Shysh, director of the Agroinnovation company, AgroTimes reports. The expert named the reasons for this stagnation. "First of all, due to the war, farmers have many obligations for loans or leasing - they lack the funds to start a new direction. Last year and the year before last were unsuccessful for agricultural producers, in particular for grain growers. For the cost of wheat, 4 thousand hryvnias/ton producers were barely making ends meet," he noted. Secondly, even after the relocation of vegetable agronomists from the occupied regions, they continue to follow the beaten path, trying to grow not garlic, but cabbage in Ternopil region and Khmelnytsky region. Read also: Lyubasha garlic from Ukraine is exported to Japan The expert believes that, in principle, garlic should be grown in Ukraine, because there is not enough of it today and ...