Discussion forum on the development of the agricultural and food sectors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
In her welcoming address to the regional panel of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations during the International Green Week in Berlin on 21 January, Federal Minister of Agriculture Ilse Aigner underlined the increasing importance of the agricultural production of Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan on the world market.
Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food of the Ukraine, Mykola Prysjashnjuk, Federal Minister Ilse Aigner, Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel (Facilitator), Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia, Alexander Petrikow (from the left), Source: Steffen Weigelt
According to Minister Aigner, cereals and oilseed especially play an increasingly important role. The FAO forecast a rise in output in the agricultural sector of this region of up to 30 percent by 2019. However, growing success also means greater responsibility.
Promoting the development of the agricultural and food sectors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is a matter of special concern to the Federal Government. The Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) has therefore, under the bilateral cooperation programme, been lending active support to its partner countries for almost twenty years (1993). In this respect, a cooperative partnership "on an equal footing" has always been vital. The project work focuses on the imparting of expert knowledge and technology transfer. The aim is to help set up an efficient agri-food administration and industry in the partner countries.
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