USAID AGRO to provide micro-, small-sized farms in Ukraine with 1 tonne of NPK fertilizer each for 2024 fall sowing campaign

MOSCOW. June 21 (Interfax) - The United States government will donate mineral fertilizers to 9,500 farmers in southern, central, western, and northwestern parts of Ukraine under the AGRI Ukraine initiative to be used during the 2024 autumn sowing campaign, Ukrainian media reported citing the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.

The support is intended for farmers cultivating from five to 500 hectares of farmland in the Cherkassy, Chernovtsy, Ivano-Frankovsk, Khmelnitsky, Kiev, Kirovograd, Lvov, Nikolayev, Odessa, Poltava, Rovno, Ternopol, Vinnitsa, Volyn, Zakarpatye, and Zhitomir regions, growing grain or oilseed crops, and registered as legal entities or individual entrepreneurs, including as family farms, it said.

Preference will be given to farms managed by women (in line with the State Agrarian Register's data) and farmers that have not previously received fertilizers under the USAID AGRO support project.

A total of 9,500 tonnes of fertilizers is to be provided to Ukrainian farmers through the USAID AGRO program.

Applications will be accepted from June 24 to July 4 or until the expiration of the program's volume. Each eligible applicant will receive one tonne of the NPK compound fertilizer.

Farmers applying for support are expected to register with the State Agrarian Register in the Available Programs-USAID AGRO 1 tonne of NPK 2024 section.

As reported, the fertilizer distribution campaign is part of the USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) for Ukraine under the AGRI Ukraine initiative. In early June 2024, USAID AGRO announced a program to provide over 3,300 micro- and small-sized farms with the mineral fertilizer carbamide.

In 2023-2024, USAID AGRO supplied fertilizers to over 14,000 Ukrainian farmers, enabling them to grow at least 2 million tonnes of grain on over 460,000 hectares, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry said.