Since 24th February 2022 Each of the agricultural workers is the same warrior in the field as the defenders on the front line. Everyone's contribution plays an important role in ensuring the food security of the country and partner countries. It is probably the most difficult sowing season we ever had to carry out. The main problem consisted in the fuel shortage. We had to make many more adjustments because of the war. This year's costs of cultivating one hectare of land have increased significantly compared to the previous year. This year we used more organic fertilizers and used biological products of our own production, which allowed us to minimize the cost of this component. Sowing is going well, all things considered. To supply world markets with Ukrainian grains is a global issue. Sea routes are closed and logistics chains are destroyed. 400 million people in the world are provided with food thanks to Ukraine. All these problems and the prospect of a protracted conflict are serious challenges for every agricultural worker, because we must somehow compensate for agricultural products that will not be produced this year. We will work to increase productivity with all the opportunities available to us. We are technologically ready. I believe that global partnership programs to support Ukraine can significantly alleviate the difficult financial situation of many farms.
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Еsma ADZHIIEVA
Yesma Adzhieva, chair of the board at NGO “Alem” & Elnara Abdullaieva, PhD candidate in agriculture, dancer
Crimea

Roman DIAZHUK
Organic farmer, owner of the Danube Agrarian, Safiany village, Odesa Region
Odesa

Bohdan DELIUK
Doctor, General practitioner, Kalynivka district, Vinnytsia Region
Vinnytsia

Halyna DZHULAI
First deputy-mayor of Novoyavorivsk, Lviv Region
Lviv

Lina FYNIAK
Nurse-in-chief, Center for Primary Health Care, Veselynivska village administration, Mykolaiv region
Mykolaiv

Kateryna ILKIV
Farm of Two Katerynas, Tukhlia village, Lviv oblast
Lviv

Yurii KOTSULIVSKYI
Head of the Maternity Department at the Vinnytsia Rayon Hospital, Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia

Yurii KURYLKO
Yurii KURYLKO, Deputy director of the Health Protection Department in Poltava Region & Ivan SHUMEIKO, Chief therapist at the Central Regional Hospital in Poltava
Poltava

Viktoria MARCHENKO
Viktoria Marchenko, head of the Department of education of the Krasnosilska community, Odesa Region; Diana Karpenko, teacher; Vladyslav Rodenko, student
Odesa

Snizhana MATKOVSKA
Businesswoman, owner of the Relaks Café in Popasna, Luhansk region
Luhansk

Tetiana NALEZHYTA
Head of Department – intensive care unit for newborns at the Vinnytsia regional hospital, Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia

Mykola OVCHARENKO
Head of the Mental Health Center in the Luhansk Region, Rubizhne
Luhansk

Valentyna PANASIUK
Director of the milk collection point “Prushanka”, Kozyatyn district, Vinnytsia Region
Vinnytsia

Andrii PINCHUK
Priest, community leader in the Voloske village, Novooleksandrivska amalgamated community, Dnipropetrovska oblast
Dnipro

Oleksii RIABOKON
Mayor of the Obiednana Terytorialna Hromada (Amalgamated Territorial Community) of Pyriatyn, Poltava Region
Poltava

Liudmyla ROSTETSKA
Deputy director of the Cherkasy Higher Vocational School of Construction Technologies, Cherkasy
Cherkasy

Valerii SELISHCHEV
Head of the Upper Kalmius Water Filtration Plant at Voda Donbasa, Donetsk
Donetsk

Vladyslav SEMENIUK
Citizen, Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia

Alla VNUKOVA
Internally Displaced Person, Entrepreneur, head of company “Edelweiss”, Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region
Donetsk

Yevhen YAROVYI
Former economist, head of his residential building’s “Association of Apartment Building Co-owners” (OSBB), Darnytsia district, Kyiv
Kyiv

Olha ZAIARNA
Masters’ graduate, “Conflict resolution and mediation” programme, Kyiv
Kyiv

Yuliia ZAIKA
Executive director of the League of Business and Professional Women of Ukraine, Chernihiv city
Chernihiv

Oleksii ZELIVIANSKYI
IT engineer, Coordinator for “E-services” at the E-Governance for Accountability and Participation (EGAP) Programme, Kyiv
Kyiv

Yuliia ZEMETSKA
Deputy director of the department of economics at the Bila Tserkva municipality, Kyiv Region
Kyiv

Tetiana ZIATIKOVA
Head of the department of infrastructure projects, energy efficiency and promotion at the municipality of Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr