The garlic industry in Ukraine is in stagnation

Published Nov 28, 2024

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The article highlights the stagnation in garlic cultivation in Ukraine, which has high potential for profitability but is hindered by financial constraints due to war-related obligations and previous unsuccessful years for farmers. Serhiy Shysh, director of 'Agroinnovation', notes that agronomists displaced from occupied regions continue to focus on traditional crops like cabbage instead of garlic. He emphasizes the need for increased garlic production to satisfy growing demand and reduce reliance on imports, contrasting garlic's potential profitability with the low returns from other vegetables like onions and cabbage.

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Unlike most vegetables, the area under garlic in Ukraine is not growing. Although growing garlic can be high-margin. In his article for the magazine "Gardening in Ukrainian", Serhiy Shysh, the director of the company "Agroinnovation", told about this and named the reasons for such 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," he wrote. - 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." Secondly, Shysh continued, even after the relocation of vegetable agronomists from the occupied regions, they continue to follow the beaten track, trying to grow cabbage in Ternopil Oblast and Khmelnytskyi Oblast, not garlic. The expert believes that, in principle, garlic should be grown in Ukraine, because there is not enough of it today and every year ...

Source: Agrotimes