There is scheduled the Minister’s speech at the Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the signing of the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between the OECD and the Government of Ukraine for deepening cooperation in Paris.

Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi has begun the visit to the French Republic as part of Government Delegation. The purpose of the visit is to develop bilateral cooperation in the field of agriculture.

There is scheduled the Minister’s speech at the Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the signing of the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between the OECD and the Government of Ukraine for deepening cooperation in Paris.

It is also planned a visit to «EURONEXT» and a meeting with its CEOs.

It should be noted that the turnover of agricultural products reached 536.9 million USD in 2015.

The export reached 388.1 million USD. Import - 148.8 million USD. Mainly there were exported vegetable oils, oil seeds, fruits, nuts, peel.

For the eight months of 2016 the import reached 124.0 million USD that is more on 17.2 million USD than the comparing to the same period of 2015. There were imported cereals, oilseeds, vegetable oils and other.