FAO to hold tender for mobile granaries for Ukraine - Ukrainian Agrarian Policy Ministry

MOSCOW. Aug 1 (Interfax) - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hold an international tender for mobile granaries that will help Ukraine deal with the shortage of grain elevators in 2022-2023.

The tender is part of the projects funded by the governments of Canada and Japan, the Ukrainian media said with the reference to the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

"Together with the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the FAO has been working on the implementation of the grain storage support strategy that aims to provide the facilities for storing 4.07 million tonnes of grain or approximately 25% of the estimated deficit of granaries. Presumably, most of the offered solutions will be supplied to regions by the beginning or the middle of October, when the demand for storing the harvest peaks," the ministry said.

The solutions purchased at the tender include grain storage sleeves, grain loaders and unloaders, and modular granaries with a tent covering and with a capacity from 300 to 1,000 tonnes (for wheat).

The bidding ends on August 5, and the FAO will hold a virtual meeting with potential suppliers on August 1 to provide detailed information about bidding requirements, guidelines for registering in the UNGM system, and answers to any questions.

As reported earlier, the deficit of grain elevators in Ukraine in the 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) was estimated at 15 million tonnes at the end of July.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said in mid-June that Ukraine would soon receive the first batch of sleeves for temporary storage of agricultural crops, i.e. mobile granaries it needed due to the deficit of grain elevators.

The ministry reached out to the governments of the United States, Canada, the United Nations and the European Union in order to deal with this problem.