Posted on 07/21/2022 9:01:10 AM PDT by elpadre
The United States has established the $100 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative (AGRI) to help the Ukrainian agricultural sector amid the worsening of the global food crisis exacerbated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The initiative takes place with the participation of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It will be aimed at ensuring the continuous production of agricultural products in Ukraine until 2023 and solving urgent issues with its export, according to the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
"Over the past four and a half months, the maximum efforts of the president of Ukraine, the government and the team of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy were aimed at increasing Ukraine's export opportunities, blocked as a result of the war and the inaccessibility of seaports, as well as financially supporting our farmers so that they can continue to work," Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solsky said.
"The initiative will increase Ukrainian farmers’ access to critical agricultural inputs including seeds, fertilizer, equipment, and pesticides, enhance Ukrainian infrastructure capacity and capability to efficiently export agricultural goods, increase farmers’ access to financing, and expand the capacity of Ukrainian businesses to dry and temporarily store, and process agricultural commodities," USAID said.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, USAID will work with farmers' associations to adapt granaries to their individual needs, which will allow them to apply effective technologies where necessary.
"USAID seeks to raise an additional $150 million for the initiative from fellow donors and the private sector with an overall target of $250 million. AGRI-Ukraine builds on a range of support USAID is providing to Ukraine’s agriculture sector in the wake of Russia’s full scale invasion, including providing over 8,000 Ukrainian farmers with seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and more, reaching approximately 14% of the country’s registered agriculture enterprises, to help them deliver this year’s harvest despite the devastation caused by Russia’s invasion," USAID added.
And just how are our farmers doing in this Biden caused economy?????
And everyday the Biden Administration works against American farmers. You can rewrite that sentence by replacing ‘farmers’ with any occupation or business.
DC is just cutting-and-pasting the bloated, progressive US welfare state onto Ukraine.
Its all they know.
So stupid. So wasteful. So....Democrat Party.
Not sure since they’re in coding class.
Let the EU pay for it. It’s to their benefit.
Those Ukrainian Farmers better not use fertilizer or they will become persona non grata...just like in the Netherlands.
UKE farmer, “Seeds? These aren’t seeds they’re bullets”.
bttt
What does Ukraine have on biden that he is committing billions of our money to give to Ukraine?
What will they reveal to the world if he stops the money?
MUGFO! (Make Ukraine Great for Once)
Absolutely true— and it must be part of the anti-Trump changes which removed this kind of corrupt support vs. AMERICA FIRST.
The US does not import very much of ANY Ukrainian agriculture— not wheat, certainly not corn or any other grains. WE can sustain our own people, or did, and have enough left over to export to other countries at a profit to US farmers. Or the US used to do this.
Let’s ask Sonny Perdue (Trump AG Sec, and former Governor of GA)— he’ll tell you what the hell is happening here. Sheer lunacy we will NEVER realize anything from.
Also this is yet more $$$ to be skimmed by the crooks who run Ukraine now— and don’t forget the 10% for the “big guy” it covers this to, USAID money—through an approved Non-governmental org in Ukraine. Same crap as before.
One guess, educated, would be WHY he has a file on Hunter’s laptop involving all this graft.
the file’s title: “PAEDO-Pete”
Biden in human trafficking— tip of the iceberg. Human degradation on a massive scale.
The laptop is full of examples of this American caligula.
How about a little help for American agriculture? Screw Ukraine.
Here's another check!
I’m a Farmer and I have to say WTF!!!
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