Market value of agrochemicals in Ukraine reaches in approximately to $300 millions annually

According to the Report “Agrochemicals in Ukraine – 2012”, market value of plant protection in Ukraine reaches in approximately to 300 millions US dollars annually. Last years the plant protection market was increasing and reached to about 350 millions US dollars. In what follows the year-on-year growth of supplying volume the plant protection means are expected on 10-15% at the average.

Lack of pesticides, especially herbicides and fungicides, leads to annual losses: by estimations of experts – up to third of crops. On this occasion the growing demand for agrochemicals is traced year by year. Nevertheless own manufacture in Ukraine doesn’t develop and decreases within last years. For example manufacturer of herbicides has fallen out approximately in four times recently.

Requirement approximately in 10 types of fungicides, 20 types of insecticides, 25 types of herbicides couldn’t be covered by domestic production. Therefore Minprompolitic has given over a thousand licenses for the right of distribution the agrochemical products. It has been registered more than a half of thousand types of preparations (about 20 of them are domestic).

As market participants approve, hundreds original means of plant protection and generics are registered and applied for today in Ukraine and every year its consumption increases. It is promoted by tendency in agriculture: to buy seeds of high-quality hybrids together with pesticides, specially created for its processing.

Plants protection, being as though the final link the technology of cultivation the crops, essentially determines the efficiency of other power investments, including the most capacious.

According to the Report “Agrochemicals in Ukraine – 2012” the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine confirms that for the harvest 2012 the crops were sown on the area of 27,8 million hectares, including agricultural enterprises – 19,5 million hectares (70,1%), households of the population – 8,3 million hectares (29,9%).

Compared with 2011 the total sown area has increased on 125,9 thousand hectares (0,5%). The area is planted to maize in 2012 has increased on 11% to 4 million hectares.

Sown area of winter crops for harvest in 2012 have increased on 1,9% as compared with harvest 2011 - up to 9 434,3 thousand hectares. In particular, the sown area of winter wheat made up 6 709,1 thousand hectares, winter rye – 317,9 thousand hectares, winter barley – 1 371,4 thousand hectares, winter rape for grain – 961,6 thousand hectares.

The area is planted to oilseeds has increased on 4% - to 7,4 million hectares.

In particular, increase the sawing areas under sunflower has counted to 8% (5,2 million hectares), under soybean - 20% (1,35 million hectares). The area is planted to rape has also increased slightly as compared to season 2011 and made more than 1 million hectares.

In 2012 all categories of farms are harvested 46,2 million tons of grain in clean weight, including grain food crops - 17 million tons (37%), coarse grains – 29,2 million tons (63%).

As compared with 2011, the grain production has decreased on 18,6% due to reduction of harvested area (on 531,6 thousand hectares, or 3,5%) and decline the grain yields (on 5,8 centner  per hectares, or 15,7%).

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