EU agrees to provide Ukraine with satellite crop forecasts
2011-01-20 16:08:13
The EU has agreed to provide Ukraine with no cost crop forecasts using its MARS (Monitoring Agricultural Resources), satellite forecasting technology. The EU will provide Ukraine with no cost computer equipment and programming to use the satellite data, as well as training on how to develop production forecasts. As a result the government will be able to get better crop forecasts for Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Donetsk, Kherson and Zhytomir Oblasts.