OREANDA-NEWS. August 03, 2009. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy will submit for consideration by the Government the National Program of technological and technical re-equipment of agricultural production in a month. The Minister of Agrarian Policy Yurii Melnyk announced during a meeting into agricultural machine-building held under chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko.

“Mostly this project of the program will be based on those state mechanisms which had been acting in previous years and applied in 2009 too. In particular, these are Programs of technical and technological re-equipment through Ukragroleasing company,” the Minister explained.

Moreover, Yurii Melnyk informed in 2009 Ukragroleasing, at the account of funds of the Stabilization Fund of the State Budget, has purchased 196 items of agricultural equipment for UAH 47 million which were supplied to agricultural enterprises on conditions of financial leasing. At the same time, he emphasized from now on exceptionally modern equipment, with advanced technologies will be purchased at the funds of the State Budget.

“On the one hand, modern high-quality equipment will be received by agricultural enterprises and farmer’s economies, on the other - machine-building plants that deal with production of up-to-date equipment will obtain orders, their collectives will be working and in such a way we will be able to effectively use funds of the state budget in the current year and lay the basis for the future,” the Minister stressed.