Organization:Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food (Ukraine)
| Міністерство аграрної політики та продовольства України | |
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| Formed | 15 June 1917 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Ukraine |
| Headquarters | 24, Khreschatyk street, Kyiv, Ukraine , 01001 [2] |
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| Website | Official website |
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food (Ukrainian: Міністерство аграрної політики та продовольства) is the central executive authority of Ukraine in charge of country's agro-development. It is one of the oldest government agencies of Ukraine. On 29 August 2019 the ministry's function were taken over by the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.[1] On 17 December 2020 the ministry was resurrected.[4]
Ministry activity is coordinated by the Cabinet of Ukraine. Ministry is the main authority in the system of central government responsible for national agricultural policy supervising and implementation including policy on agriculture and food security, public policy in the fields of fishery and fishery protection, use and reproduction of aquatic resources, regulation of fishery and maritime security, veterinary medicine, species protection, land related questions, mapping and surveying, forestry and hunting, surveillance (monitoring) in agriculture.
History
The precursor of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine was the General Secretariat of Land Affairs, established on June 15, 1917 under the Government (the First Vynnychenko government) of the Central Council of Ukraine.[5]
List of names of the precursor of the ministry
- Ministry of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Fruits and Vegetables of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Rural Construction of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Meat and Milk Industry of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Preparations of the Ukrainian SSR
- State Committee of the Ukrainian SSR on production and technical provision of agriculture
- Main Administration in gardening, viticulture and wine industry of the Ukrainian SSR
- State Agro-Industrial Committee of the Ukrainian SSR: 1986 - 1992[6] (part of the State Agro-Industrial Committee of the USSR)
- Kolhosps (along with the Council of kolhosps of the Ukrainian SSR)
- Ministry of Bread products of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Amelioration and Water Management of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ministry of Forestry of the Ukrainian SSR
- Ukrainian Administration in Fishing
- Ukoopspilka
- State Committee on Social Development of Village: 1991 - 1993[7]
- State Committee on Bread products: 1991 - 1993[8][9]
- Ministry of Agriculture and Food: 1992 - 1993[10]
- Ministry of Agriculture and Food: 1993 - 1998[11]
- Administrations of agriculture and food
- Administrations of agriculture and food in raion state administrations
- Inspections on preparations and quality of agriculture products of regional state administrations
- Inspections of state technical supervision on status of agricultural vehicles in regional state administrations
- State Committee on gardening, viticulture and wine industry: 1994 - 1998[12]
- Ministry of Fishing: 1995 - 1997[13]
- Ministry of Agro-Industrial Complex (APK): 1997 - 2000[14]
- State Committee of Fishing: 1997 - 2000[17]
- State Committee in monopoly on production and circulation of alcohol, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products: 1998 - 2000[18]
- Ministry of Agrarian Policy: 2000 - 2011[19]
- Ukrainian State Concern in gardening, viticulture and wine industry: 2000–present[20]
State Committee of Agro-Industrial Business
(As seen above) in 1985 the Ministry was transformed into the State Committee on Agrarian and Industrial Economy of Ukraine (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). The head of the committee was Yuriy Kolomiets who at the same time was the first deputy chairman of the council of ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. Oleksandr Tkachenko and Viktor Sytnyk were the first deputies of Kolomiets.
The State Committee (also known as Derzhahroprom) included number of other ministries and its regional branches.[21]
- Ukrainian branch of the VASKhNIL
- Central administration on production and processing of plants
- Central administration of food industry
- Central administration on material and technical supply
- Central administration on human resources and external relations
- Central administration on fruit-vegetable economy and potatoes
- Central administration on production, preparation, and processing of products of animal husbandry
- Central administration on mechanization and electrification
- Central administration on capital construction project and reconstruction
- Forest Ministry
- Ministry of Amelioration and Water Management
- Ministry of Bread Products
- "Ukrholovrybhosp"
- Ukoopspilka
- Republican cooperative and state association on agrarian and industrial construction
- Republican of scientific and production association on agro-chemical servicing of agrarian business
- NASU Institute of Economy
- Department of agrarian production management (Ukrainian science and research institute of economy and organization of agrarian business of Aleksandr Schlichter)
- representatives of the Central administration of statistics (deputy chief), the Ministry of Finance (first deputy), the Derzhplan (first deputy director), the Derzhpostach (first deputy), the Ukrainian Office (Kontor) of Gosbank (deputy director)
- regional branches of all oblasts of Ukraine
2019—2020 disappearal of the ministry
On 29 August 2019, the appointed Honcharuk Government did not have a separate Ministry of Agriculture.[1] The ministry function were taken over by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.[1]
In January 2020 President Volodymyr Zelensky stated the need to separate the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.[22] Early March 2020 the Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture, Tymofiy Mylovanov refused to head a newly reestablish Ministry of Agriculture (because he did not agree with the economic policies of the new Shmyhal Government).[23]
On 9 July 2020 Zelensky predicted that "at maximum in September" Ukraine would have a separate Minister of Agriculture again.[22]
On 17 December 2020 the ministry was indeed resurrected with the appointment of Roman Leshchenko as Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food.[4]
Structure
Subordinate authorities
- State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine
- State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine
- State Agency for Forest Resources of Ukraine
- State Agency of Fisheries of Ukraine
- State Agriculture Inspectorate of Ukraine
Subdivisions
- Office of the support service of the Minister
- Office of Inner Audit
- Department of Legal and Legislative Work
- Anti-Corruption Sector
- Department of Economic Development of Agricultural Market
- Department of financial and credit policy and accounting
- Department of Foreign Economic Relations
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of livestock
- Department of food
- Department for technical support and Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Public Information, interaction with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and consideration of appeals
- Department of Personnel
- Department of the Control
- Department of Science and Education of Agro-industry and Rural Development
- Department of communication with media, PR and Information
- Office of Management of State Property
- Operational-regime Office
- Sector of Safety and Fire Safety.
Ministry commissions
- Committee on Rural Development
- Commission of the development of agricultural market of Ukraine
- Committee on Land Relations
Scientific institutions
- Agricultural higher education institutions
- Research institutions
- Subordinated organization
- Other institutions of Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food
Advisory structures
As an advisory structure, under the Ministry acts a Public Council. Its activities are governed by the Regulations of the Public Council. Chairman of the Public Council is Leonid Kozachenko, president of the All-Ukrainian public organization "Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation".
List of ministers
Ukrainian People's Republic
Land cultivation
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| General Secretariat of Land Affairs | Borys Martos | June 1917 | August 1917 |
| General Secretariat of Land Cultivation | Mykhailo Savchenko-Bilskyi | September 1917 | December 1917 |
| Bohdan-Oleksandr Zarudnyi | December 1917 | January 1918 | |
| Ministry of Bread Production | Arystarkh Ternychenko | January 1918 | February 1918 |
| Ministry of Land Affairs | Mykola Kovalevskyi | February 1918 | April 1918 |
| Vasyl Kolokoltsov | May 1918 | October 1918 | |
| Volodymyr Leontovych | October 1918 | November 1918 | |
| Sergei Gerbel | November 1918 | December 1918 | |
| Mykyta Shapoval | December 1918 | February 1919 | |
| Eugene Archipenko | February 1919 | April 1919 | |
| Mykola Kovalevskyi | April 1919 | May 1920 | |
| Isaak Mazepa | May 1920 | November 1920 | |
Food
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| General Secretariat of Food | Mykola Stasyuk[5] | June 1917[5] | August 1917 |
| Mykola Kovalevskyi | November 1917 | January 1918 | |
| Ministry of Food | Dmytro Koliukh | January 1918 | March 1918 |
| Yuriy Sokolovskyi | April 1918 | October 1918 | |
| Ministry of Food Affairs | Borys Martos | December 1918 | February 1919 |
Western Ukrainian People's Republic
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| State Secretariat of Land Affairs | Stepan Baran | November 1918 | December 1918 |
| Mykhailo Martynets | December 1918 | Summer 1919 | |
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| People's Secretariat of Land Affairs | Yevhen Terletskyi | December 1917 | March 1918 |
| Vasyl Shakhrai | March 1918 | April 1918 | |
In March–April 1918 with the help of Central Powers, Ukraine was liberated from Bolsheviks.
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The following list relates to institutions of the previously created by Bolsheviks Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets.[24]
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
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| Start | End | ||
| People's Secretariat of Land Affairs | Vladimir Mescheryakov | 1919 | 1919 |
| People's Commissariat of Land Affairs | Dmitry Manuilsky | 1920 | 1921 |
| Miron Vladimirov (Scheinfinkel) | 1921 | 1922 | |
| Ivan Klymenko | 1922 | 1925 | |
| Yakym Dudnyk | February 1925 | December 1926 | |
| Alexander Schlichter | 1927 | 1929 | |
| Nikolai Demchenko | December 1929 | February 1932 | |
| Oleksa Tryliskyi | February 1932 | October 1932 | |
| Aleksandr Odintsov | October 1932 | January 1934 | |
| Nykyfor Skalyha | January 1934 | May 1934 | |
| Lev Papernyi | 1934 | 1937 | |
| Kostiantyn Moiseyenko | March 1937 | July 1937 | |
| Zinoviy Siderskyi | July 1937 | November 1937 | |
| Ivan Murza | 1938 | 1940 | |
| Hryhoriy Butenko | 1940 | 1941 | |
| Due to World War II, the government was evacuated to Saratov | |||
| Hryhoriy Butenko | 1943 | 1946 | |
| Ministry of Land Affairs | Hryhoriy Butenko | 1946 | 1947 |
| Ministry of Agriculture (Rural Economy) | Hryhoriy Butenko | 1947 | 1949 |
| Vladimir Matskevich | 1949 | 1950 | |
| Nikifor Kalchenko | April 1950 | May 1952 | |
| Mark Spivak | April 1952 | May 1953 | |
| Ministry of Agriculture (Rural Economy) and Preparations | Mark Spivak | 1953 | 1953 |
| Ministry of Agriculture (Rural Economy) | Mark Spivak | 1953 | 1965 |
| Petro Doroshenko | 1965 | 1971 | |
| Petro Pohrebnyak | 1971 | 1976 | |
| Mykhailo Khoronzhyi | February 1976 | January 1985 | |
| Oleksandr Tkachenko | January 1985 | November 1985 | |
| State Committee of Agro-Industrial Economy | Yuriy Kolomiets | November 1985 | October 1989 |
| ??? | October 1989 | July 1990 | |
| Mykola Sydorenko | July 1990 | August 1991 | |
Transitional period
On 21 May 1991 Oleksandr Tkachenko was appointed as a State Minister on issues of Agrarian Policy and Food – Minister of Agrarian (Rural) Business of Ukraine (until 24 August 1991 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic).
| Name of institution | Name of minister | Term of office | |
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| Start | End | ||
| State Committee of Agro-Industrial Economy | Oleksandr Tkachenko | May 1991 | February 1992 |
Ukraine
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| Ministry of Agriculture (Rural Economy) and Food | Vasyl Tkachuk | February 1992 | December 1992 |
| Yuriy Karasyk | December 1992 | August 1995 | |
| Pavlo Haidutskyi | August 1995 | June 1996 | |
| Anatoliy Khorishko | June 1996 | February 1997 | |
| Mykhailo Zubets | February 1997 | July 1997 | |
| Yuriy Karasyk | July 1997 | April 1998 | |
| Ministry of Agro-Industrial Policy | Borys Supikhanov | April 1998 | July 1999 |
| Mykhailo Hladiy | July 1999 | January 2000 | |
| Ministry of Agrarian Policy | Ivan Kyrylenko | January 2000 | April 2002 |
| Serhiy Ryzhuk | April 2002 | January 2004 | |
| Viktor Slauta | January 2004 | December 2004 | |
| ??? | December 2004 | February 2005 | |
| Oleksandr Baranivskyi | February 2005 | August 2006 | |
| Yuriy Melnyk | August 2006 | March 2010 | |
| Mykola Prysyazhnyuk | March 2010 | December 2010 | |
| Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food | Mykola Prysyazhnyuk | December 2010 | February 2014 |
| Ihor Shvaika | February 2014 | December 2014 | |
| Oleksiy Pavlenko | December 2014 | April 2016 | |
| Taras Kutovyi | April 2016[25] | November 2018[26] | |
| Maksym Martynyuk (acting) | 7 December 2018[26] | 29 August 2019 | |
| Functions taken over by the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture from 29 August 2019[1] until 17 December 2020[4] • Directorate of Agrarian Development; • Directorate of Agro-Industrial Development • Department of Agrarian Policy | |||
| Ministry of Agrarian Policy | Roman Leshchenko | 17 December 2020[4] | 24 March 2022 |
| Mykola Solskyi[3] | 24 March 2022[3] | Incumbent | |
See also
- Ukrainian production-technological support of agriculture
- Agrarian Fund[27]
- Grain elevators companies[28]
- Precision agriculture companies[29]
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
- ↑ "Official website of the Ministry. Contact Us.". 2017. http://minagro.gov.ua/en/%D1%81ontacts.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lawmaker Solskyi accepts offer to become Ukraine's agriculture minister, Reuters (24 March 2022)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Parliament appoints Leshchenko as agricultural policy minister, Ukrinform (17 December 2020)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 (in Ukrainian) 100 years ago the Central Rada formed the first government of Ukraine (infographics) 100 років тому Центральна Рада створила перший уряд України (інфографіка), Radio Free Europe (28 June 2017)
- ↑ About adopting regulations on the State Agro-Industrial Committee of the Ukrainian SSR.
- ↑ About adopting regulations on the State Committee on Social Development of Village.
- ↑ Issues of the State Committee on Bread products.
- ↑ About adopting regulations on the State Committee on Bread products.
- ↑ Issues of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
- ↑ About adopting regulations on the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
- ↑ Regulations on the State Committee on gardening, viticulture and wine industry.
- ↑ Regulations on the Ministry of Fishing.
- ↑ Regulations on the Ministry of Agro-Industrial Complex.
- ↑ Regulations on the Committee of Food Industry.
- ↑ Regulations on the Committee on gardening, viticulture and wine industry.
- ↑ Regulations on the State Committee of Fishing.
- ↑ Regulations on the State Committee in monopoly on production and circulation of alcohol, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products.
- ↑ Issues of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
- ↑ On creation of the Ukrainian State Concern in gardening, viticulture and wine industry.
- ↑ About confirmation composition of the State Committee on Agrarian and Industrial Economy (Про затвердження складу Державного агропромислового комітету УРСР). Verkhovna Rada.30 December 1985
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 President: At most in September we will have a separate Minister of Agrarian Policy, Ukrayinska Pravda (9 July 2020)
- ↑ Milovanov explained why he refused to work in the new government, Ukrayinska Pravda (5 March 2020)
- ↑ Ministry of Agrarian Economy of the Ukrainian SSR (Міністерство сiльського господарства УРСР). Central State Archives of Higher Bodies of Power and Administration of Ukraine.
- ↑ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 (in Ukrainian) Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 December 2018)
- ↑ Agrarian Fund. Official website.
- ↑ Grain elevators companies. Catalog.
- ↑ Precision agriculture companies. Catalog.
External links
- Official Website of Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food
- Decree of the President of Ukraine № 1085/2010 (December 9, 2010) "About optimization of central authorities"
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