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Explore the types of governmental support and challenges faced in the domestic manufacturing of agricultural machinery in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Compare inventories of selected agricultural machinery, analyze the age of machinery on farms, and discuss new paradigms for technical services. Examine policy tools for less market-oriented and more market-oriented economies and evaluate their results in these countries.
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Annual Meeting 2010 Istanbul, 21-22 April National policies to support the mechanization and technical modernization of agriculture in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine Eu.Serova D.Prikhodko FAO Investment Centre
Lack of machinery? • Types of governmental support • Domestic machinery manufacturing: challenges • Cross country comparisons • Conclusions
tractors harvesters reapers Kazakhstan: inventories of selected ag. machinery, ths pieces seaders
Kyrgyzstan: inventories of selected ag. machinery, ths pieces
Russia: age of selected machinery on large and medium farms Tractors Grain harvesters
Russia: selected ag. machinery manufacturing, ths pieces Source: Rosstat
New paradigm for technical services • Emerging of smallholder producers • Emerging of “agroholdings” • Better use of machinery • New technologies and machinery generation
Policy tools: less market oriented economies • State supplies • Double prices • State and para-state machinery services • State trade
Policy tools: more market oriented economies • State supported leasing • Partial compensation for machinery purchases cost • Soft lending for farms (mid-term) • Support for credit coops • Machinery coops/services/pools • Trade measures
Policy results Ukraine K a z a k h s t a n Russia