The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has supported amendments to the mechanism of reservation, which proposed to detail the list of persons who may receive deferment of conscription.

UNDP and Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food will work together to strengthen low-carbon agriculture, expand access to green finance, digitalization and develop export potential.

At the end of the summer, pork prices have consolidated across the country, analysts of the Association Ukranian Pig Breeders noted according to the results of weekly monitoring.

In August, wages refrained from falling in most regions. The exceptions are Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Sumy and Ternopil regions. Kiev, Vinnitschina and Zakarpattya saw a very slight decrease in average wages of no more than 2.7% per month. The biggest drop in the labor market and the lowest average monthly salary was in Kharkiv and the oblast. Here in August the lowest salaries were offered in Ukraine, which fell by -41% compared to the previous month (from 18,000 UAH in July to 10,600 UAH in August).

In order to ensure an uninterrupted supply of foodstuffs to the population under martial law the Government has introduced a simplification of requirements for mandatory labeling of imported food products in the state language.

In 5.5 months of Russia's war against Ukraine, almost 10 million tons of eight items of agricultural products and their processing have been exported. In the first two weeks of August, Ukraine has already exported almost 2 million tons of grain, while in all of July it was 3 million tons. Corn - 776 thousand tons and wheat - 339 thousand tons left the most in the first half of August.

Following the grain agreements signed by Ukraine, Turkey, the UN Secretary General and Russia, world wheat prices fell by 8%.

Yulia Sviridenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine told about it within the framework of the Forum of Veterans.

719 of them want to create their own processing enterprises. This was said by First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko on the air of the general national telethon.

Opening coffee shops, producing ceramics, building energy-efficient homes, introducing a solar power plant testing service - these and other projects will soon be realized thanks to the government's micro-grant program for developing or creating businesses. The project "eRabota", launched by the Ministry of Economy with the support of the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy, the State Employment Service and Sberbank, is designed to fulfill the dreams of tens of thousands of Ukrainians to have their own business and to promote entrepreneurship in difficult economic times.

In the second half of August, the positive dynamics of purchasing prices for pork continued, noted the analytical department of the Association "Pig Breeders of Ukraine" according to the results of weekly monitoring.

"Dubovyi Gai" AIC LLC is a pig farm that was one of the first to experience the effects of Russian aggression. On February 28 it was attacked by a missile, which destroyed two halls for fattening pigs with a herd of 2000 pigs, a department of feed production, an administrative building, sanitary and other ancillary buildings, damaged communications and the water supply system. However, despite this, the company did not lose heart and continues to work, restoring the destroyed facilities with its own resources and does not exclude the possibility of further restoration.

With no significant rainfall recorded for nearly two months in western, central and southern Europe and no rainfall forecast in the near future, meteorologists say the drought may be the worst on the continent in more than 500 years.

The hog sector began a major transformation in the early 1990s, and since then, it has experienced productivity growth and structural change, increased output, and expanded exports. This study examined changes in hog production from 1992 to 2017.

The United States of America will provide the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) with $68 million to buy wheat in Ukraine in order to send it to the most vulnerable countries in terms of food security. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this on Twitter.

Planted areas are smaller, which means the yields should be higher. This is the goal this year and further set by Ukrainian agrarians. And the parliament actively supports this goal. In particular, by adopting the bill number 4558 which regulates the use of pesticides and agrochemicals in Ukraine. The press service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine reports.

Meeting the nutrient needs of the sow's body during the weaning to insemination period is important to improve sow performance. How to shape the sow's feeding strategy during the service period is explained by Sergei Dobryansky, productive animal nutrition expert, Cargill.

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier BRAVE COMMANDER left the port of Yuzhny on August 16. 23,000 tons of wheat left for Ethiopia to overcome the hunger problem in East Africa. This was announced in his tweet by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Markiyan Dmitrasevich. The ship was chartered within the framework of the World Food Program of the UN.

August 16, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved, developed by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the procedure for the use of financial assistance to small agricultural producers, most affected by the military aggression of the Russian Federation and in need of support for incurred costs for field work, maintenance of cows, the purchase of materials for economic activities, fuel and lubricants, plant protection products, feed and other production costs. The total amount of the program is 1.5 billion UAH.