June 12 2002, 18:06 APK-Inform

Shall the state be the boss of the agrarian sector?

The APK-Inform reports that the seminar devoted to Ukrainian agrarian policy study included a speech of the Deputy State Secretary of AIC-Ministry Roman Schmidt who encouraged the preservation of state as a regulator of agrarian sector, which is a common practice across the globe.

In fact, he believes that in diary industry with its overproduction and price decline beating the farmer the state should have done quoting and licensing to prevent such a case.

Moreover, AIC-Ministry calls for fixed farm tax even after the year 2004 to reach the level of agriculture to such of Europe or North America.

11mn MT of the grain 2001 was contracted which means that Ukraine will always be exporting grain, sunflower seeds, milk and meat and protect the domestic sugar market.

The WB expressed their vision of decreased intrusion of the state into agrarian sector where each country should decide if it wants to keep unfeasible agriculture going on its own expense just to keep the landscape in good shape or develop an efficiently working farms with minimum support from the government like in US.