USAID AGRO Ukraine

🚜 With disrupted logistics, fluctuating grain prices, and increased input costs, Ukrainian farmers are exploring every opportunity to sustain farming operations. In autumn 2023 and winter 2024, as part of the wider 𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 #AGRI_Ukraine initiative, USAID AGRO Ukraine provided urea fertilizer to 7621 farmers to help them nourish winter crops. 🌱 👨🌾 And while this tangible support is vital, one of its beneficiaries, Serhii, a farmer turned vlogger from Kirovohrad Oblast, illustrates how the sense of community provides intangible support by keeping the morale high. 👏 🎥 On his YouTube channel, Serhii shares regular updates and has recently posted about applying the urea received from USAID AGRO Ukraine, to fertilize winter wheat. Overall, in 2023 and early 2024, 𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈-𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 supplied seeds and fertilizers to 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬, providing inputs for fieldwork across more than 460,000 hectares to cultivate at least 2 million tons of grain.

📣 USAID AGRO Ukraine is hiring. We are looking for: 🔸Consultant on Teaching Methods in Secondary Schools (https://shorturl.at/bdfix) 🔸Consultant for Developing a Land Relations and Regulation Guidebook for Secondary Schools (https://shorturl.at/eCIM5)  🎯Place of Performance: Consultant’s location. 📌 Submit your CV and cover letter to agro.hr@chemonics.com by May 1st, 2024

👩🌾 Meet Yuliia and Oleksandr, a young couple from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast who cultivate 100 hectares of land, growing grain and oilseed crops. Faced with a labor shortage, Yuliia, who holds two academic degrees in humanities, has learned to operate a tractor and other farming machinery. 🚜 With her can-do attitude, the support of her loved ones, and assistance from USAID AGRO Ukraine, Yuliia is optimistic about the future of their family business and prospects for Ukraine's agriculture. #success_stories

📣 USAID AGRO Ukraine is looking for: 🔸Expert for Developing the Seeds Intellectual Property Market Model On this position the Expert will be responsible for coordinating the Working Group’s efforts to create solutions for implementing and overseeing royalty/breeder payment collection, amending pertinent laws, and ultimately establishing a transparent intellectual property market for the Ukrainian seed industry. 🎯Place of performance – at the Expert’s location  SOW timing: May 15 - November 27, 2024 with the possibility of extending the cooperation. Contract renewal will be contingent on performance and progress achieved on the workplan deliverables. 📌 Submit your CV and cover letter to agro.hr@chemonics.com by May 3rd, 2024 To find out more about this job opportunity, please follow the link in comments

🗓 Looking forward to seeing you at the 2nd national expo "Хлібна Індустрія" (the Bread Industry) on 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟕 𝐌𝐚𝐲 in Cherkasy. 🍞 🥐 ✅ The event will be of interest to a broad range of participants in the agro-industrial and related sectors, including producers of flour, flour products, cereals, and other grain processing companies, as well as bread holdings, bakeries, retailers, suppliers of packaging, raw materials, equipment, and technologies. USAID AGRO Ukraine supports UNION MILLERS OF UKRAINE in co-organizing this important industry event. ℹ For additional information, please visit https://lnkd.in/ddiNXwD7

🌾 Drying and storing grain, for export or further processing into food and feed, has been a challenge for smallholder farmers, especially since the start of the full-scale war: experts estimate, that Russia's attacks have caused a 19.5% reduction in Ukraine's grain storage capacity. USAID AGRO Ukraine has partnered with 11 elevator companies to cater to at least 990 small and medium agribusinesses like 'Snow Milk' farm. Drying and storing grain at nearby grain elevators is a cost-efficient solution for farmers who don't own storage and drying facilities. #success_stories #AGRI_Ukraine

📣 USAID AGRO Ukraine is looking for: 🔸Procurement & In-Kind Grants Specialist Deadline - May 31st, 2024 🎯 Work Location: Kyiv (remotely if required) 📌 Submit your CV and cover letter to agro.hr@chemonics.com To find out more about this job opportunity, please follow the link in comments

👩🌾 Tetyana Matviyets, a retired agronomist from Velyka Bakta, Berehove district in Zakarpattia, tends to her family’s 4-hectare garden by herself these days. Her garden is a cornucopia of produce, from apples, plums, cherries, peaches and pears, to nuts and berries. The family have carefully gathered the varieties, most of the Ukrainian selection, from various parts of Ukraine. 🍒 🍐 🍎 Tetyana gladly shares her knowledge with fellow gardeners through community service. She is also a member of a local cooperative. With her husband often away for work and her son in the military, Tetyana handles most of the garden work and processes the harvest into dried fruits, jams, and juices. The remaining fresh produce is sold through the cooperative’s consignments. 🍑 Recently, Tetyana participated in a training session at the Dary Berehivshchyny cooperative on using electric pruners for pruning fruit trees. This training is part of the USAID AGRO Ukraine initiative to provide labor-saving equipment to help automate tasks for women and men from vulnerable groups working in orchards.

📣 USAID AGRO Ukraine is hiring! We are currently looking for: 🔸Grants and Procurement Assistant On this position Assistant will work in coordination with the Grants and/or SIF Managers providing administrative and technical support. She/he will ensure that subrecipients/contractors comply with all regulatory requirements outlined in the AGRO Subawards and Contracts Manual. 🎯 Work Location: Kyiv or remote. 📌 Submit your CV and cover letter to agro.hr@chemonics.com by May 5, 2024. Required skills, qualifications for this job opportunity and other details, please follow the link in comments

📣 Attention brokers, service companies, agro-export consultants, and companies facilitating agricultural exports from Ukraine! 🎤 Take a survey and help USAID AGRO Ukraine identify your needs so we can better support your activities! We are assessing the demand for support among companies that facilitate the export of processed grain, oilseeds, and legumes (such as flour, bran, oil, lecithin, protein products, etc.). Should there be a significant demand, USAID AGRO Ukraine might target it with a support program to help service companies develop and grow. 🗺 Our focus is on promoting Ukrainian agricultural exports in European, Asian, and Middle Eastern markets. 🔸If you provide services that help open new markets or support export supplies, we invite you to complete the application form 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟑𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: https://lnkd.in/dpNubefJ, or https://lnkd.in/eSgdTUE3 (English version) For any inquiries, please contact Mr Oleksandr Prykhodko, Agricultural Markets Development Manager, at olprykhodko@chemonics.com