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Ukraine, Turkey to boost agricultural cooperation, trade

Xinhua, September 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Ukraine and Turkey have agreed to boost agricultural cooperation including increasing bilateral trade, the Ukrainian Agriculture Ministry said in a statement issued on Thursday.

According to the statement, during the third meeting of the Ukrainian-Turkish working group on agriculture in Kiev, the two sides have pledged to trade in more kinds of food and agricultural products.

"Ukraine is interested in exporting vegetable oils, meat, dairy products, eggs, poultry, fish, honey, fur, grain and tobacco products to Turkey," Olga Trofimtseva, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister, said during the meeting.

The two sides also agreed to share farming technologies in pest control, organic production and irrigation.

Besides, the two Black Sea countries pledged to strengthen collaboration in aquaculture and fisheries and in their related sectors.

In 2015, Ukraine's agricultural exports to Turkey amounted to 750 million U.S. dollars, with vegetable oils, predominantly sunflower seed oil, accounting for about 90 percent of the total.

Turkey exported farm produce worth 220 million dollars to Ukraine in the same year, most of them vegetables and seeds. Endi