The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has established a 100 mln USD Agriculture Resilience Initiative (AGRI) - Ukraine to bolster Ukrainian agriculture exports and to help alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine, the agency said.
AGRI-Ukraine will target Ukraine’s immediate agricultural export challenges, while also simultaneously supporting the wider needs of Ukraine’s agriculture sector and bolstering Ukraine’s continued production of agricultural commodities through 2023. The Initiative will increase Ukrainian farmers’ access to critical agricultural inputs including seeds, fertilizer, equipment, and pesticides, enhance Ukrainian infrastructure capacity and capability to efficiently export agricultural goods, increase farmers’ access to financing, and expand the capacity of Ukrainian businesses to dry and temporarily store, and process agricultural commodities.
USAID Administrator for international Development Samantha Power emphasized that the aim of the program was to help Ukrainian farmers to restore agricultural sector.
USAID will work on adaptation of grain storages for individual needs cooperating with farmer association to use efficient technologies at proper places.
AGRI-Ukraine is already helping over 8,000 Ukrainian farmers to harvest this year’s crop.
USAID seeks to raise an additional 150 mln USD for the Initiative from fellow donors and the private sector with an overall target of 250 mln USD.
