USAID and FAO will provide Ukrainian farmers with sleeves for grain storage

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and USAID will provide farmers with sleeves for grain storage.

FAO and the “Harvest” program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) together with Minagro have started registering applications for sleeves, the Donetsk Regional State Administration reported.

The State Agrarian Register has begun accepting applications for grain storage sleeves with a capacity of 200 tons each.

The sleeves will be available to agricultural producers who cultivate from 50 to 10,000 hectares of land in the territories of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions. Priority will be given to businesses located near the front line or whose infrastructure has suffered significant damage.

The number of sleeves that agricultural producers will be able to receive will be calculated depending on the number of applications received, but no more than one sleeve per 50 hectares of grain and oilseed crops.

Program participants must bear the costs of transporting sleeves from the specified warehouse to their farm.

To receive assistance, agricultural producers must register for participation in the program through the State Agrarian Register, choosing among the available support programs the Program of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, FAO and USAID on the distribution of grain sleeves in the front-line regions of Ukraine.

Applications will be accepted until October 6, 2024. After processing the received applications, the selected participants of the program will receive confirmation through DAR, they will be informed about the time and place of receiving assistance.

Previously, USM reported that the need of Ukrainian farmers for additional containers for grain storage in the front-line regions may reach 1.4 million tons.