OREANDA-NEWS. May 12, 2011. In May, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov will check how the Government order on the construction of regional wholesale markets and vegetable stores is executed. He stated this at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers.

“I have already drawn the attention of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food and heads of regional administrations to the problem of vegetable stores and wholesale markets. It's time to check how the Government order is executed. In May, we'll do this” –the Prime Minister noted.

According to him, there were nothing done in Ukraine about 20 years to implement modern technologies of storage and wholesale of fruit and vegetables.

“It could not be ensured price stability, such as potatoes, if only 2% of the product was grown by industrial way, unless there were the system works of harvesting potatoes in the population, unless no the conditions for long-term storage and were not regulated relations between producers and sellers. Generally it refers to the all so-called “borshch set” products” – Mykola Azarov said.

According to Mykola Azarov, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food together with regional administrations are obliged to decide the issue of functioning vegetable stores, carrying out regular fairs, agricultural markets in cities and more within a year.

“The basis of price stability in the food market is a food production to satisfy with interest a demand. A stock must exceed any attempt to rush surges and speculation. It should also be free competition and free access manufacturer directly to the buyer. Creating such conditions is the main task for authority” - Mykola Azarov declared.