In 2024, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food allocated 39.4 million UAH in state support to agricultural producers utilizing irrigated lands, reported Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaliy Koval on Telegram.
"To receive the budget subsidy, they submitted applications to the State Agrarian Register. Following the review of the submitted applications by the commission of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, state support was granted to 10 agricultural enterprises and regions of Cherkasy, Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava, Zhytomyr, and Lviv with a total amount of 39.4 million UAH," the minister wrote.
According to him, these funds facilitated irrigation over an area of 2,500 hectares of cultivated agricultural land.
Koval reminded that state support is provided at a rate of up to 50% of the cost of expenses (excluding VAT) to farmers for carrying out reconstruction and/or new construction of irrigation systems, as well as to water user organizations for the restoration, reconstruction, modernization, and major repairs of pump stations (put into operation) during the period from November 1 of the previous year to October 31 of the current year.
The maximum subsidy amount for a producer is 26,500 UAH per hectare of cultivated land where the relevant work has been carried out.