Yoke of agrarian reforms

Author: Stanislav BaranetsPhoto: InterMedia consulting

Dear friends! Our countryside is the heart of Ukraine. And saving countryside we save Ukraine. I am running for presidency because I know how to do it and I am ready to shoulder responsibility for the future of Ukrainian countryside. No special services and no blackmail will stop me. I will win the elections and during the first days of my presidency I will enact a law envisaging prolongation of moratorium on sale and purchase of agricultural land. Jointly we will prevent oligarchic criminal from buying farmland for a trifling sum! We won’t allow robbing farmers again!

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"The main issue of my programme regarding the land policy is: land privatization is not an end in itself, but the way to ensure its efficient utilization and to raise competitiveness of production."

"Nearly a third of alienated agricultural land plots is exhausted and need serious «treatment.» Who but the state ought to revive these lands?"

"That is why the state is to be a major subject in the land market, to conserve land and gradually restore its fertility. It is necessary to revise completely agricultural land’s distribution, to find out and eliminate drawbacks, and to compensate material and moral damage to each person."

"The new government will be prompt to stabilize the agricultural situation."

"We will ensure long-term lax credits for farmers to enable them to sell their goods to advantage."

"We will provide subsidies for farmers per hectare under crop, quintal of production and head of livestock, thus they will be rewarded for their toil."

"Agricultural products purchasing prices won’t ruin farmers."

"Farmers will be able to sell their goods at world prices."

"There will be a single land tax for all the agricultural producers."

"Farmers will be insured against bad harvests, murrain and pillage."

"Ukrainian farmers will be sure of their future."

"Criminal government has ruined our countryside, and we will revive it! We will save Ukrainian countryside together!"

Sincerely,

Victor Yushchenko.