TRADE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FAT-AND-OIL MARKET

Serhiy Demyanenko

Organizations by functional characteristics

• Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation

• Farmer and Private Landowner Association

• Rural Union of Ukraine

• Ukrainian League of Agro-industrial Entrepreneurs

Organizations by branch characteristics

• Ukrainian Grain Association• Grain Processor Association “UkrZernoProduct”• National Sugar Maker Association of Ukraine

“UkrTsukor”• Sunseed Processor Association “UkrOliya Prom”• Soybean Producer and Processor Association

“UkrAgroPromSoya”• Flax Producer Association “Lyon Polissya”

Main tasks of agricultural trade organizations

• Representing and lobbying interests of their members in Parliament and the Government

• Cooperation with legislative and executive authorities

• Information, consultative, and scientific maintenance

• Training, holding seminars and conferences• Cooperation with other trade organizations, both

in Ukraine and abroad

Activities of UkrOliyaProm

• Lobbying interests of its members in the Verkhovna Rada and Government

• Promotion of supplying crushers with raw material• Participation in drawing up legal documents (draft

laws, resolutions, technical specifications for the branch operation)

• Participation in preparation and issuing of monthly analytical reviews and the quarterly scientific and production magazine “Oliyno-Zhyrovy Komplex”

Key problems of the branch

• Tolling schemes

• Indicative export prices for sunseed

• Refunding of oil export VAT

• The crusher taxation problem results from seasonality

• Low competitiveness of the branch’s production on international markets

Activities of UkrPromSoya

• Lobbying interests of its members in the Verkhovna Rada and Government in order to get state support

• Informative work for expanding soybean production and technological implementation

• Faciliation of establishing seed-growing farms• Legal and information-consultative services and

training

Soybean branch problems

• Improvement of production technology• Provision with conditioned seeds• Farm-based processing for feed• Provision of crushers, compound feed mills and

shops with raw material• Promotion of manufacture of domestic processing

equipment • Improvement of agricultural enterprises

management and financial provision

Inter-trade organizations in France

• Providing of market information on production, processing and sale of goods

• Regulation of markets (volumes, quotas)• Control of product quality and technologies,

certification• Evaluation of the product image in both domestic

and foreign markets• Professional education (trainings, courses)• Assistance in organization of management and

accounting

Ways for improvement of trade organizations activity in Ukraine

• Improvement of the legal basis – approval of an appropriate Law of Ukraine

• State support for activity of trade organizations (beneficial credits, partial compensation of expenses for staff and advisory services)