AGRO Ukraine 🌾🇺🇦

Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities (AGRO) Activity in Ukraine

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🚜 In 2024, agricultural services and innovative solutions facilitated by #USAID_AGRO helped over 900 #Ukrainianfarmers navigate turbulent times and sustain their operations, transforming production and resource management practices.

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🌾Demand for financial products from the non-banking sector has been growing steadily. In 2024, AGRO-supported instruments like trade credit, WEAGRO instalment plans, and digital leasing provided around $25M in financing to 1,200 farmers, fueling resilience in agribusiness. 💳

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✅ When the full-scale war disrupted Ukraine's agricultural supply chains, #USAID_AGRO stepped in to help agri-producers restore and expand market access. Working with businesses and professional associations, #USAID_AGRO creates opportunities and new export routes.

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✅#USAID_AGRO helped 5 industrial potato hubs increase processing capacity by 32K tons annually.
In 2024, these hubs worked with 45 agroMSME potato producers, purchasing over 10K tons of potatoes through contract growing models. In 2024-2025, >270 MSMEs received seed potatoes.

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✅#USAID_AGRO also supports agro-processing by creating better conditions for value-added production.
🌾AGRO is backing 26 projects to process grains, oilseeds, and pulses,
🥦 helps restore and grow processing at 15 enterprises involved in vegetable, meat, and dairy production.

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✅In 2024, to tackle grain storage issues, #USAID_AGRO partnered with 24 elevators across Ukraine, increasing grain drying capacity by 620K tons &storage capacity by 600K tons per cycle. Since 2024, these elevators supported over 500 MSMEs, handling more than 550K tons of grain.

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🧺 Additionally, in 2024 #USAID_AGRO introduced practical recommendations for implementing carbon farming practices piloted on six demonstration farms and proposed a financial model to help farmers assess the economic feasibility of these practices.

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👨‍🌾 In 2024, #USAID_AGRO supported Ukrainian farmers by providing fertilizers and seeds for spring and winter sowing campaigns. Overall, between 2023 and 2024, over 19,000 farmers nationwide benefitted from our input distribution programs.

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🌱In 2024, #USAID_AGRO turned its attention to seed production in Ukraine and studied the seed production market to foster breeding, certification, and sale of domestically produced high-quality seeds.

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Jan to Dec'24, >5K land plots (44,600 ha) were leased, 48% more than 2023 generating UAH 804.6 million in community income, including UAH 386 million from 2024 leases. Local budgets received UAH 30.7 billion in related taxes, 14% of community tax revenues (up from 11% in 2023).

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Since the market's launch, 305,200 transactions covering 684,500 hectares have been recorded. In 2024 alone, 103,300 transactions were completed for 232,300 hectares, representing a 37% increase in transaction numbers and a 46% rise in land area compared to 2023.

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Legal entities boosted market capitalization by UAH 340.7 billion ($8.2 billion). In 2024, 1,446 legal entities purchased 50,000 hectares across 17,200 land plots, accounting for 21.3% of the market. Legal entities paid 20-50% more per hectare than individual buyers.

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🪴 Yesterday marked one year since legal entities gained access to Ukraine's farmland market. Under the Invincible Land project supported by USAID AGRO Ukraine, experts from the Kyiv School of Economics analyzed the farmland market's impact on the country's economy in 2024.

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#USAID_AGRO supported 18 projects to ensure irrigation on 6,800+ ha & organized a U.S. study tour for WUOs to learn innovative irrigation practices. Together, we’re transforming Ukraine’s irrigation and drainage infrastructure into a modern, efficient system!

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🚜 In 2024, Ukraine's irrigation reform saw major progress: 54 water user organizations (WUOs) now unite 140+ ag producers across 13 regions, irrigating every third hectare. With #USAID_AGRO help, 15 networks were registered, 4 transferred, paving the way for modernization. 💧🌱

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Since 2022, #USAID_AGRO's Consolidated Communities project has delivered over 2.5K tons of aid to support almost half a million people! In 2024 alone, we reached 893 communities, delivering 733 tons of rehabilitation materials, seeds, and organic sorbent for moisture retention.

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Precision farming technologies are becoming accessible to small farmers in Ukraine thanks to the #USAID_AGRO and Frendt LLC. Oleh was one of the first to try the new digital field audit service - and to save on agricultural inputs thanks to it.
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Since its launch, #USAID_AGRO’s Consolidated Communities project implemented by All-Ukrainian Association of Communities, delivered over 2,500 tons of aid to 500K+ people. Recently, displaced families from Mangushska community got 1,000+ kg of food and sweets. Together, we care.

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With support from #USAID_AGRO, potato hubs in Lviv are boosting local farmers
✅ Contract farming ensures stable markets
✅ New storage extends processing season
✅ Modern equipment drives efficiency
This year 12K+ tons processed, high-quality starch to be exported to 🇪🇺 & 🇮🇱! 🥔