InterAGRO 2016

The Exhibition

InterAGRO is the annual meeting point of agriculture in Ukraine for leading investors and farmers. In 2015, 14,000 visitors came to the fair to meet 341 exhibitors, among them 50 international companies from 13 countries. Traditionally, they meet on renowned manufacturers of agricultural machinery showing their latest state-of-the-art technology of the leading national and international manufacturers with the focus on going easy on resources. This year InterAGRO will focus on issues of increasing economic efficiency of agribusiness by means of introducing innovative agrarian technologies, deep processing of agricultural  products and improvement of agribusiness infrastructure as well.

The Market

Around 60 percent of Ukraine’s approximately 32.5 million hectares of arable  land comprises fertile black-earth land. Hence, Ukraine has enormous potential for high crop yields. However, owing to outdated equipment on many farms, this potential cannot be exploited efficiently. According to Ukrainian Agribusiness Club statistics, small and medium-sized farms, in particular, lack modern tractors and combines. The country’s agricultural-holdings (operating more than 20,000 hectares of farmland each) are planning to invest heavily, particularly in crop cultivation, as well as in grain and oilseed processing and storage. Ukraine’s farm machinery and farm inputs producers are not competitive, and significant government subsidies for these industries are not to be expected. Thus, Ukraine offers foreign manufacturers potentially lucrative markets.