World facing global meat surplust so farmers need gov't support – Bakhmatyuk

The owner of one of the largest Ukrainian agricultural holdings, businessman Oleg Bakhmatyuk, has explained how the pandemic and global economic crisis lead to losses by Ukrainian livestock producers, and what role the state should play in overcoming the negative consequences of crisis in the industry. Ukrainian news reports.

The owner of the UkrLandFarming agricultural holding spoke about this in an interview with UNIAN. When asked, what impact the pandemic has on the agricultural sector as a whole and which industries are affected more, the businessman noted that processors and producers of pork, poultry, eggs, beef, suffered the most. In addition, 2020 was the worst year in terms of the volume of the harvested crop over the past