The Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations Grygorii Kaletnik hold a meeting with the delegation of the Subcommittee on Agriculture Finance Committee of the Parliament of Finland.

During the meeting Grygorii Kaletnik noted that one of the priorities of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations is to harmonize agrarian legislation ofUkrainewith the relevant EU laws.

The Chairman of the Committee also noted that in the process of legislation the people’s deputies prefer to support Ukrainian agricultural processing industry. It will help to guarantee the priority of processing agricultural crops inUkraineover exporting raw products. Also the people’s deputies are working on the completion of land reform that will help to start the circulation of agricultural land in Ukraine.

Grygorii Kaletnik also pointed that the volume of agricultural production inUkrainetoday is more than 20% of the GDP of the state. Taxes revenue to the state budget from agricultural enterprises is about 10 billion U.S. dollars. The Chairman of the Committee also noted that agricultural export provides positive balance of Ukraine in the field of foreign trade.

While answering the questions of Finnish delegation representatives Grygorii Kaletnik noted that today there is a tendency of increasing the number of cows and milk that is produced in the big enterprises and reduction in private households. The level of annual milk yield per cow inUkraineis 4.1 thousand liters in private households and from 6.5 to 7.5 thousand liters in agricultural enterprises. Although there are farms that produce 8.5 thousand liters per year. Finnish representatives pointed that inFinland, the annual milk yield per cow is 10 thousand liters per year.

Ukrainian people’s deputies and representatives of the Subcommittee on Agriculture Finance Committee of the Parliament of Finland and representatives shared the experience in the field of agriculture in Ukraine and Finland. Also they discussed the peculiarities of foreign investment in the agricultural sector of Ukraine and livestock production.