Friday 23 March 2012

Ukraine to create large corn-soybean belt based on US corn belt

The Ukraine Minister of Agricultural policy and food (Minagroprod) has started a program that will create a large corn-soybean belt, that will increase land used to five million hectares for corn and 2-2.5 million hectares for soybean. This will almost double the production of these crops.
“Minagroprod initiated a fundamental change in the structure of main crop production in the Ukraine, aiming to grow crops more in line with the climatic conditions of our country,” said Nikolay Bezugly, deputy minister of Agricultural Policy and Food, at the recent Forum "Agribusiness in Ukraine", organised by the Adam Smith Institute.

"Ukrainian science has developed the concept of a corn-soybean belt in the forest-steppe part of Ukraine based on the  Corn Belt in the USA", said  Bezugly. Read more ...
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