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Comprehensive assessment of challenges facing Ukraine on its path towards EU accession must inevitably include identification of those faced by the Ukrainian agricultural sector. Here, it is necessary to adapt to the rules, norms, and standards of the European Union, especially in the cases of the Common Agricultural Policy and the European Green Deal, as well as to identify ways to expand mutually beneficial cooperation between all connected parties within agricultural value chains. Analysis of Ukraine’s Input-Output tables and turnover of goods and services undertaken by the authors of this paper reveals deep integration of Ukrainian agriculture within the global economy. Dynamics of Ukrainian agri-food exports in 2014-2023, analysed according to the product structure and geographical directions, demonstrate stability of volumes and shares of exports to the EU, both in the pre-war period and currently – in conditions of a full-scale war. Furthermore, the study confirms the economic implausibility of most of the claims made recently by Eastern European farmers regarding the extreme influx of Ukrainian agri-food products. Among the anticipated benefits for Ukrainian agricultural sector accruing from joining the EU are the sector’s potential greening and diversification, as well as the likely development of domestic agri-food processing and increase ...

Agriculture is a leading sector in the Ukrainian economy, providing a significant share of export revenues and guaranteeing the food security of other countries. However, the war with Russia has profoundly challenged the sector, which now faces the following problems: insufficient financial resources to ensure the production of agricultural products; reduced fertiliser use; crisis in animal husbandry sectors; labour shortage; destruction of the infrastructure for production, processing and storage of products; environmental threats; and insufficient attention on the part of the EU to the environmental component in support programmes. Different support programmes have been created to ease the challenges above, and these are analysed by the paper. In light of the country’s prospective EU membership, the paper proposes the following solutions to ensure safe and high-quality production of Ukrainian food: budget financing, effective taxation, a fair price policy, soft loans (in particular for organic farming), grant support, and new subsidy programmes.