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Wednesday, November 14th, 17.00
Today the development and implementation of State Support Programs in Agriculture is rather chaotic and is unlikely to help agro producers except probably for a small group of large and enterprises with political connections.
Moreover, current support programs lack clear and well-justified goals, which prevents evaluation of effectiveness of spending on these programs, as well as an open professional discussion. Thus, today taxpayers’ money spent on agricultural subsidies are wasted.
And even if we assume that development and implementation of current support programs is based on the best practice, empirical studies show that they have rather an adverse effect on long-term sustainable growth of Ukrainian agrosector.
During the seminar, I will try to show how a state support of agro producers aimed at an increase of competitiveness of agrosector and development of rural areas should look like.