The US government will provide free mineral fertilisers for fieldwork in the 2024-2025 season for more than 3,300 Ukrainian agricultural producers from the frontline and de-occupied regions as part of the AGRI-Ukraine initiative.
This is reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
“Through the USAID AGRO Programme, a total of 6,600 tons of fertiliser will be transferred to Ukrainian agricultural producers. Each agreed participant will be able to receive up to 2 tons of urea fertiliser,” the statement said.
The agency noted that registration for the assistance would be held in the State Agrarian Register (SAR), in the section “Available Programmes”. The name of the programme: “USAID AGRO Urea for grains and oilseeds in the 2024-2025 season for the regions affected by military operations”.
Applications will be accepted from June 11 to 25 or until the amount of assistance is exhausted.
The assistance will be available to agricultural producers in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions (excluding the temporarily occupied territories) who cultivate 5 to 500 ha of land, grow grains or oilseeds and are registered as legal entities or individual entrepreneurs.
“Approved applicants who cultivate 5 to 25 hectares of land (owned and leased) will receive 1 ton of fertiliser each. Those who cultivate from 25 to 500 hectares will receive 2 tons each,” the ministry added. (Ukrinform)