“We Don’t Need So Many Villages”: Ukraine Is Preparing to Sell Its Chernozems to the West

Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard



20:30:09

10/01/2019



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Agriculture in Ukraine will get better after arable lands are sold off to transnational companies.

This was stated on the air of radio “Agro FM” by the Ukrainian economist Aleksandr Okhrimenko.

“It is simple to arrange things so that everyone is okay. Lift the moratorium (for the sale of farmland), then allow transnational companies to buy up land without restrictions. They buy up land, although it is very expensive.

If they will do this, then the second stage will involve them buying up old villages. You know, there are old villages where one or two persons live. Building or buying a new house in the city to resettle these people won’t be a problem for them (transnational corporations). Then they should raze villages and thus increase arable lands,” he noted.

In response to the remark that it can happen like in America, where all the land was bought up as private property and fenced off, the economist said that Ukraine doesn’t need such a number of villages at all.

“Not really. Look, imagine that you are cycling. You travel during a day and you don’t see any villages. You travel for a second day and you don’t see any villages. But you see that around you there are fields, sowed with high quality grain, corn, colza, or wheat … Then you continue to travel – and you see new grain elevators, new roads…

We do not need such a large number of villages, we don’t need such a large number of manual work and inefficient agriculture,” summarised Okhrimenko.

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