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PhD Kirdan O.P.
Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
Upgrading of Agriculture Material Support
The Law of Ukraine "On the Fundamentals of the
State Agrarian Policy for the Period till 2015" (2005) and the State Task
Program of Ukrainian village development for the period till 2015 establish the
main priorities of the state agrarian policy in investment and innovation
support to the agrarian sector development including: creation of conditions
for technical re-equipment of agricultural machine-building plants to produce
machinery for introducing modern, highly efficient and energy-saving technologies;
re-equipment of material and technical basis of agricultural enterprises by
improving long-term loans, partial reimbursement for the cost of complicated
agricultural machinery from the State Budget of Ukraine, financial leasing,
support to the logistics infrastructure development; promotion of
energy-saving, safe and environmentally friendly production technologies of
agricultural products and food; State support to breeding, plant and animal
protection, maintenance of intraeconomic land reclamation systems.
National machine-building enterprises improve performance data of
machinery and equipment by increasing the costs for their upgrading, thus
allowing production of high quality agricultural equipment at the prices below
foreign analogues. For instance, the OJSC "Kharkiv Tractor Plant"
developed a universal agricultural tractor HTZ-18041 and a power tool to mount
various adapters for crop harvesting. With high performance data of this
machine, its cost is almost 2.5 times less than that of a foreign analogue. The
enterprise upgrades HTZ-170 tractor to increase its capacity to 210-240 hp.
They also manufactured a highly efficient and competitive tractor HTZ-22021, a
harvester complex KZS-100, milking machines.
The "Red Star" enterprise spent over 200 mln. UAH for
upgrading; the OJSC "Hydrosyla" - nearly 150 million UAH.
Ukraine has established production of modern harvesters "DON-LAN
ACROS" and "DON-LAN VECTOR". These harvesters
are created through cooperation of joint Ukrainian-Russian production
enterprise "Don-Lan" together with "Rostselmash" Company
(Russia). Major performance characteristics of these harvesters: they are
equipped with threshing machine of smaller width, have 7.0-7.5 kg/s capacity, a
540-liter fuel tank allowing continuous work for 14-16 hours, minimizing fuel
consumption, cabs with improved convenience.
Foreign-made agricultural machinery, having advantageous performance
indices and longer service life and wear, enjoy demand in the domestic market.
Germany and Poland are the major suppliers of grain harvesters to Ukrainian
market (nearly 75 per cent of the total market). In 2011, Ukraine imported over
2,700 grain harvesters for the amount about $330 mln. USD. In value terms, the
leading brands were "Claas" (25.3% of the total harvester imports to
Ukraine), "John Deere" (17.4%) and "Palace" (15.1%).
The market of imported tractors has no less impressive indices. As a
result of marketing in 2011, Ukraine imported about 10,000 tractors with
capacity over 80 hp totaling approximately $330 mln. USD. In value terms, the
leading tractor brands are "MTP" (47.2% of total tractor imports to
Ukraine), "John Deere" (19.0%), "Case" (11.3 %) and
"New Holland" (6.5%).
Aimed at accelerated upgrading of machinery and tractor stock of agricultural
commodity producers, the state finances the programs to acquire the national
agricultural machinery and equipment upon financial leasing terms and partially
reimburses for the value of sophisticated agricultural machinery produced
domestically. The national joint stock company "UKRAGROLEASING"
supplies the machinery on financial leasing terms and conditions. Since 1998
when financial leasing was introduced in Ukraine till 2011 the Company acquired
agricultural machines and equipment forthe amount of 2 billion 80 million UAH
and transferred them to agroindustrial enterprises upon financial leasing
terms.