Representatives of the Department of Agricultural Development and Land Relations of the Regional State Administration and farmers of Donetsk Oblast met as part of the Dialogue between Government and Business online platform. The online platform was created on the instructions of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to promptly address current issues of entrepreneurs.
The topic of this meeting was the discussion of state support programs for agricultural producers.
Representatives of the department spoke about providing assistance to farmers in the frontline areas, changes in legislation that agricultural producers should pay attention to in order to receive state aid.
Particular attention was paid to the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution, according to which agricultural producers in the region will be able to apply for a budget subsidy of UAH 1,000 per unit of cultivated land from September 10 to 25, 2025.
At the meeting with agricultural producers, we discussed
- conditions for receiving subsidies in 2025;
- restrictions on the provision of assistance;
- the procedure for reviewing applications and verifying information;
- peculiarities of submitting applications to the State Agrarian Register (SAR).
Farmers were also informed about other existing state support programs:
- partial compensation for the cost of agricultural machinery and equipment of domestic production;
- grants for business (creation or development of own business, horticulture, berry and viticulture, greenhouse farming)
- compensation for the costs of humanitarian demining of agricultural land;
- a program for the development of livestock and agricultural processing.
All questions from business representatives were answered in detail.