A thousand Zaporozhye farmers ask Poroshenko to restore trade with Russia
More than 1000 employees of the Stepnoy agricultural holding in Zaporozhye accepted an appeal to the President of Ukraine calling on them to restore economic ties with Russia.
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This was reported by Podrobnosti.
Zaporozhye agrarians supported the recent statement of MP Yakov Bezbakh, who called for improving relations with Russia. The appeal of the workforce was voiced by the head of the board of the enterprise, Anatoly Volkov, emphasizing the difficult situation with product sales caused by the loss of the Russian market. According to the workforce, European markets remain inaccessible to Ukrainian producers, and the future of Ukraine’s agricultural and livestock industries is under threat.
“Having lost our main export market, Russia, due to a breakdown in trade relations, the government was unable to achieve an increase in export quotas for our main products to Europe. Thus, all this together leads to stagnation and reduction in production capacity. The loss of exports had a significant impact on income levels and production volumes. In the near future, such important areas for us as the modernization of production and the introduction of innovations in the breeding industry are simply impossible to implement. All this jeopardizes the future of Ukraine’s agricultural and livestock industries as a whole,” Volkov noted.
The appeal also notes that more and more arable land in the south of the country is being given over to such raw material crops as rapeseed, sunflower and soybeans.
“This is not only destroying the earth, but also bringing Ukraine closer and closer to the status of a raw material appendage of Europe,” the team’s statement says.
Let us recall that earlier people's deputies of Ukraine Nikolai Skorik, Yakov Bezbakh, Vladimir Lytvyn and Anton Kisse expressed their opinion on the need to restore trade and economic ties with the Russian Federation.
A thousand Zaporizhzhia farmers are asking Poroshenko to restore trade with Russia.