Farmers in frontline regions receive grain sleeves for storing harvests

In Chernihiv region, the first 14 farmers have already been given 44 grain sleeves, each of which can hold up to 200 tonnes of grain, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaliy Koval said.

The minister said 2,550 applications were registered in the State Agrarian Register as part of a joint initiative of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Harvest program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and with financial support from the governments of Canada, Japan, the Australian charity Minderoo Foundation and the United States through USAID.

"After careful consideration and verification of applications in accordance with the program criteria, some 1,978 farmers cultivating up to 1,000 hectares of land and 306 farmers with land plots from 1,000 to 10,000 hectares were selected. In total, FAO will provide 7,000 grain sleeves to small and medium-sized farms with a land bank of up to 1,000 hectares.

The Harvest program will provide sleeves to large agricultural enterprises. "Distribution of sleeves will continue over the next few weeks to provide farmers with the necessary equipment for storing grain before the start of winter," Koval said.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy said agricultural enterprises cultivating from 50,000 to 10,000 hectares of land in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions took part in the program.