The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine praises the work of the Center for promotion of export to the European Union, which was established at the Agrarian Ministry in mid-May 2016, according to Head of International Cooperation Department of the Agrarian Ministry Oleksandr Romanovsky.
”The work of the Center is quite successful. It deals with various queries,” Romanovsky said at the round-table discussions held in the framework of a joint project of UNIAN and the EU Delegation to Ukraine ”#EUkraine”.
Romanovsky noted that, despite higher level of farmers` awareness about export opportunities to EU countries, the Center continues receiving requests for information, which do not generally fall within the competence of the Agrarian Ministry.
Romanovsky added that Ukrainian farmers should also explore other export markets, apart from those in the EU countries.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the European Commission accepted a proposal of the Ukrainian producers and expressed its willingness to increase export quotas for certain types of Ukrainian products to the European market. Commenting on the EC decision, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom said the decision would apply to a number of agricultural and industrial products, such as cereals, processed tomatoes and honey, but also fertilizers, footwear, electronic equipment and certain metals.
Previously, the Trade Commissioner reported that EU quotas would be increased for a period of three years, but the decision should see an approval of the European Parliament, as well as member states of the EU.
Later it was informed that the EU proposed increasing annual export quotas for wheat by 100,000 tonnes, for corn – by 650,000 tonnes, for barley – by 350,000 tonnes. In addition, quotas were increased for export of grape juice – to 500 tonnes, that of oats – to 4,000 tonnes, processed tomatoes – to 5,000 tonnes, processed agricultural products – to 7,800 tonnes, honey – to 3,000 tonnes.
In late September, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said that the economic effect of a possible increase in EU export quotas for Ukrainian farm produce was estimated at about $200 million.
