Experts said that the development of vegetable growing in Ukraine is significantly inhibited

Published 2023년 6월 13일

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Ukraine's vegetable market has seen high prices for the past 15 years due to a lack of systematicity, particularly in contract farming, according to Andrii Marushchak of Van Dyke Technics. The current situation forces farmers to wear multiple hats, from planting to selling, without guaranteed contracts or markets. Only a few Ukrainian processors successfully employ a contract farming model. Meanwhile, vegetable prices in Ukraine have fluctuated, with significant increases in cabbage, carrots, and onions, and decreases in buckwheat and beets. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy anticipates lower vegetable prices with the new crop, though concerns about potential shortages and higher prices for dairy and meat products loom.

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For the past 15 years, vegetables in Ukraine have been more expensive than in Europe. And the problem is not in the land or in the cultivation methods, but in the lack of systematicity. Andrii Marushchak, commercial director of the Van Dyke Technics company, said this, SEEDS reports. Personally, I believe that the problem is that we do not have systematicity. Consider any Dutch, Hungarian or German farmer: he knows that he has a retail contract for, for example, 10,000 tons of onions and 5,000 tons of potatoes. He knows that he needs to grow these vegetables with the minimum cost in order to ensure the maximum profit, because the price is already known in advance. For some reason, contact cultivation has not taken root in our country. Most likely, the retail itself does not dare to do that. Retail representatives are still trying to "run around" farmers who grow, conditionally, 10 hectares of vegetables, and buy everything as cheaply as possible, at the lowest price, Marushchak ...

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