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Join us for the 2008 Annual Meeting in Paris to discuss overcoming challenges such as lack of financing, modern technologies, skilled labor, and infrastructure in the agricultural sector of Russia and Ukraine. Explore opportunities amidst soaring food prices and external factors affecting the agricultural industry.
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UNDP Blue Ribbon Analytical and Advisory Centre 1/14 Sadova St., 4th floor, Kiev – 21, 01021, UkraineTel.: +380 (44) 253 5866; fax: +380 (44) 253 5611http://brc.undp.org.ua Soaring food prices: a window of opportunities for Russia and Ukraine? 2008 Annual Meeting Nikolay Pugachov Paris, 11-12 September 2008
In-farm factors: • Lack of farms financing • Lack of modern technologies and plants • Lack of modern technique • Lack of high-skilled employees in rural areas • Uneffective management
Lack of necessary infrastructure • Lack of necessary carriages and elevators for reloading crops in ports • Old standards • Unregulated relations between elevators and railroad • Tense relations between exporters and port services, state bodies, customs service
External factors • Inconsecutive state policy concerning agriculture • The moratorium concerning agricultural lands selling • Factor of macroeconomics