Agricultural production will grow by third in Ukraine until 2020, and primarily at the expense of plant products, which is envisaged by the Strategy for development of the agricultural sector of the economy.

Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk has said about this, the ministry's press service told Ukrinform about this.

“In the Strategy, we have set ambitious but quite real tasks to the agrarian sector. The plant growing potential allows boosting production volumes to 50% until 2020. Certainly, this will allow us considerably increasing export of plant products. As concerns cattle breeding, it will remain a strategic sector for us. Hence, we are planning to fix growth at the level of 20%,” the official said.

According to him, such growth rates will allow increasing export of agricultural products by 3-4% every year. And this will fix a status of the most perspective sector in the foreign trade after the agroindustrial complex. “The Strategy not only determines forecasted indexes - the planned economic achievements are closely related to social. Since cattle breeding has been already formed, so the main task for us is growth of the farmers' income,” the Minister stressed.

He also noted that a great attention is paid to development of the cooperative movement. In addition, the state will promote access of small and medium-size agricultural producers to the organized agricultural market in every way possible, which will help gradually creating conditions for the increase of the farmers' incomes.

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