A greenery of Galicia Greenery, a Dutch company based in Lviv Oblast, 550 kilometers west of Kyiv. Initially, the Dutch investors planned to build 15 hectares of greenhouses, but due to the weak investment climate in Ukraine, they built only 0.8 hectares.
Ukraine sells a lot of its agricultural products to the European Union — a third of all the country’s agricultural exports like grains, cereals and sunflower oil ended up in the EU last year, much of it to the Netherlands.
Ukraine exported agricultural goods worth $1.4 billion to the Dutch country, part of a bilateral trade valued at $2.5 billion in 2020.