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State Statistics Service, prices were up in August yoy for: milk +7.2%; butter +9.2%; soft cheeses +10.3%; and sour cream +14%.
More than 13,000 land agreements are now registered in Ukraine. As of September 6, 12,784 agreements on the purchase and sale of agricultural land have been concluded. 27, 810 hectares of agricultural land have been sold throughout the country since July 1. The largest areas of farmland sold were in the Kirovohrad region (3,329.2 ha), the Kharkiv region (3,320.7 ha), and the Poltava region (2,903.5 ha). In terms of the number of concluded agreements, the leaders are the Kyiv region (1,156 agreements), the Poltava region (1,123 agreements), and the Kharkiv region (1,108 agreements).
Serious challenge posed by desertification and lack of proper irrigation systems. Due to desertification, lack of investment and poor technologies, 20% of Ukraine’s arable land is degraded and unproductive. Farmers have been forced to get creative as the old and under-maintained irrigation system can’t compensate for the new lack of rainfalls. Only 600,000 hectares of Ukraine’s arable land currently have a functioning irrigation system, compared with 2.6mn hectares in Soviet times.
Ukraine may allow timber export by late 2021. Adoption of the law on the timber market, allowing the export of unprocessed timber and sawn timber from Ukraine, is forecasted until the end of this year, its entry into force does not pose significant threats to the country's forest resources and related businesses, Head of the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine Yuriy Bolokhovets has said in an exclusive interview with .
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