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Learn about key trade organizations in Ukraine's agricultural sector, including their functions, activities, and challenges. Discover how these organizations lobby, provide information, and aim to enhance competitiveness.
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TRADE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FAT-AND-OIL MARKET Serhiy Demyanenko
Organizations by functional characteristics • Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation • Farmer and Private Landowner Association • Rural Union of Ukraine • Ukrainian League of Agro-industrial Entrepreneurs
Organizations by branch characteristics • Ukrainian Grain Association • Grain Processor Association “UkrZernoProduct” • National Sugar Maker Association of Ukraine “UkrTsukor” • Sunseed Processor Association “UkrOliya Prom” • Soybean Producer and Processor Association “UkrAgroPromSoya” • Flax Producer Association “Lyon Polissya”
Main tasks of agricultural trade organizations • Representing and lobbying interests of their members in Parliament and the Government • Cooperation with legislative and executive authorities • Information, consultative, and scientific maintenance • Training, holding seminars and conferences • Cooperation with other trade organizations, both in Ukraine and abroad
Activities of UkrOliyaProm • Lobbying interests of its members in the Verkhovna Rada and Government • Promotion of supplying crushers with raw material • Participation in drawing up legal documents (draft laws, resolutions, technical specifications for the branch operation) • Participation in preparation and issuing of monthly analytical reviews and the quarterly scientific and production magazine “Oliyno-Zhyrovy Komplex”
Key problems of the branch • Tolling schemes • Indicative export prices for sunseed • Refunding of oil export VAT • The crusher taxation problem results from seasonality • Low competitiveness of the branch’s production on international markets
Activities of UkrPromSoya • Lobbying interests of its members in the Verkhovna Rada and Government in order to get state support • Informative work for expanding soybean production and technological implementation • Faciliation of establishing seed-growing farms • Legal and information-consultative services and training
Soybean branch problems • Improvement of production technology • Provision with conditioned seeds • Farm-based processing for feed • Provision of crushers, compound feed mills and shops with raw material • Promotion of manufacture of domestic processing equipment • Improvement of agricultural enterprises management and financial provision
Inter-trade organizations in France • Providing of market information on production, processing and sale of goods • Regulation of markets (volumes, quotas) • Control of product quality and technologies, certification • Evaluation of the product image in both domestic and foreign markets • Professional education (trainings, courses) • Assistance in organization of management and accounting
Ways for improvement of trade organizations activity in Ukraine • Improvement of the legal basis – approval of an appropriate Law of Ukraine • State support for activity of trade organizations (beneficial credits, partial compensation of expenses for staff and advisory services)