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Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food
Міністерство аграрної політики та продовольства України
Agency overview
Formed	15 June 1917
Preceding agency	Ministry of Agrarian Policy;
Superseding agency	Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.;
Jurisdiction	Government of Ukraine
Headquarters	24, Khreschatyk street, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001
Agency executive	Vitaliy Koval, Minister (Agrarian Policy and Food);
Website	Official website

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food (Ukrainian: Міністерство аграрної політики та продовольства, romanized: Ministerstvo ahrarnoyi polityky ta prodovolʹstva) 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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^[5] (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^[6]
State Committee on Bread products: 1991 - 1993^[7]^[8]
Ministry of Agriculture and Food: 1992 - 1993^[9]
Ministry of Agriculture and Food: 1993 - 1998^[10]
- 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^[11]
Ministry of Fishing: 1995 - 1997^[12]
Ministry of Agro-Industrial Complex (APK): 1997 - 2000^[13]
- Committee of Food Industry^[14]
- Committee on gardening, viticulture and wine industry^[15]
State Committee of Fishing: 1997 - 2000^[16]
State Committee in monopoly on production and circulation of alcohol, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products: 1998 - 2000^[17]
Ministry of Agrarian Policy: 2000 - 2011^[18]
Ukrainian State Concern in gardening, viticulture and wine industry: 2000–present^[19]

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.^[20]

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.^[21] 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).^[22]

On 9 July 2020 Zelensky predicted that "at maximum in September" Ukraine would have a separate Minister of Agriculture again.^[21]

On 17 December 2020 the ministry was indeed resurrected with the appointment of Roman Leshchenko as Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food.^[3]

Structure

Subordinate authorities

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
Name of ministry	Name of minister	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
General Secretariat of Land Cultivation	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
Name of ministry	Name of minister	Start	End
General Secretariat of Food	Mykola Stasyuk^[4]	June 1917^[4]	August 1917
General Secretariat of Food	Mykola Kovalevskyi	November 1917	January 1918
Ministry of Food	Dmytro Koliukh	January 1918	March 1918
Ministry of Food	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
Name of ministry	Name of minister	Start	End
State Secretariat of Land Affairs	Stepan Baran	November 1918	December 1918
State Secretariat of Land Affairs	Mykhailo Martynets	December 1918	Summer 1919

Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets

Name of ministry	Name of minister	Term of office
Name of ministry	Name of minister	Start	End
People's Secretariat of Land Affairs	Yevhen Terletskyi	December 1917	March 1918
People's Secretariat of Land Affairs	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.^[23]

Name of ministry	Name of minister	Term of office
Name of ministry	Name of minister	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
Name of institution	Name of minister	Start	End
State Committee of Agro-Industrial Economy	Oleksandr Tkachenko	May 1991	February 1992

Ukraine

Name of ministry	Name of minister	Term of office
Name of ministry	Name of minister	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
Ministry of Agro-Industrial Policy	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^[24]	November 2018^[25]
	Maksym Martynyuk (acting)	7 December 2018^[25]	29 August 2019
Functions taken over by the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture from 29 August 2019^[1] until 17 December 2020^[3] • Directorate of Agrarian Development; • Directorate of Agro-Industrial Development • Department of Agrarian Policy
Ministry of Agrarian Policy	Roman Leshchenko	17 December 2020^[3]	24 March 2022
Ministry of Agrarian Policy	Mykola Solskyi^[26]	24 March 2022^[26]	Incumbent

Notes

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Parliament appoints Leshchenko as agricultural policy minister, Ukrinform (17 December 2020)
^ ^a ^b ^c (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
^ ^a ^b 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)
^ ^a ^b (in Ukrainian) Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 December 2018)
^ ^a ^b Lawmaker Solskyi accepts offer to become Ukraine's agriculture minister, Reuters (24 March 2022)
^ Agrarian Fund. Official website.
^ Grain elevators companies. Catalog.
^ Precision agriculture companies. Catalog.

External links

[cabappoint2cabappoint-1] 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)

[2] "Official website of the Ministry. Contact Us". 2017.

[3156609agriculturalNM-3] Parliament appoints Leshchenko as agricultural policy minister, Ukrinform (17 December 2020)

[28583521ЦентральнаVV-4] (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)

[5] About adopting regulations on the State Agro-Industrial Committee of the Ukrainian SSR.

[6] About adopting regulations on the State Committee on Social Development of Village.

[7] Issues of the State Committee on Bread products.

[8] About adopting regulations on the State Committee on Bread products.

[9] Issues of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

[10] About adopting regulations on the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

[11] Regulations on the State Committee on gardening, viticulture and wine industry.

[12] Regulations on the Ministry of Fishing.

[13] Regulations on the Ministry of Agro-Industrial Complex.

[14] Regulations on the Committee of Food Industry.

[15] Regulations on the Committee on gardening, viticulture and wine industry.

[16] Regulations on the State Committee of Fishing.

[17] Regulations on the State Committee in monopoly on production and circulation of alcohol, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products.

[18] Issues of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

[19] On creation of the Ukrainian State Concern in gardening, viticulture and wine industry.

[20] About confirmation composition of the State Committee on Agrarian and Industrial Economy (Про затвердження складу Державного агропромислового комітету УРСР). Verkhovna Rada.30 December 1985

[662777AgrarianZelensky-21] President: At most in September we will have a separate Minister of Agrarian Policy, Ukrayinska Pravda (9 July 2020)

[657749Milovanov-22] Milovanov explained why he refused to work in the new government, Ukrayinska Pravda (5 March 2020)

[23] Ministry of Agrarian Economy of the Ukrainian SSR (Міністерство сiльського господарства УРСР). Central State Archives of Higher Bodies of Power and Administration of Ukraine.

[24] New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)

[643368Assign_new-25] (in Ukrainian) Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 December 2018)

[agriculture-solskyi-26] Lawmaker Solskyi accepts offer to become Ukraine's agriculture minister, Reuters (24 March 2022)

[27] Agrarian Fund. Official website.

[28] Grain elevators companies. Catalog.

[29] Precision agriculture companies. Catalog.

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