USAID's AGRI-Ukraine Supports Ukrainian Farmers

The United States, through USAID, launched the Agriculture Resilience Initiative (AGRI) - Ukraine to bolster Ukrainian agricultural production and exports and to help alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine. AGRI-Ukraine will provide 8,000 storage sleeves, 29 grain loading machines, and support the establishment of 69 modular grain storage facilities. AGRI-Ukraine is working with 13 Ukrainian companies that will use these items to provide storage services to micro-, small-, and medium-sized grain-producers in Ukraine with a focus on corn and sunflower seed. This effort will directly enable more than 2,000 farmers to preserve their harvest until they can sell it for export or domestic use and earn much-needed revenue, create jobs for Ukrainian workers, and ease the global food security crisis exacerbated by Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine.