A company in Uzyn, a town in Ukraine’s northern Kyiv Oblast has been growing one of the largest freshwater shrimps called Macrobrachium Rosenbergii for over a year in industrial volumes. Last year, they sold 16 tons, and this year...
Christina says it is cheaper to run a business in Ukraine, calling it the land of opportunities: The land was calling me, I guess. I love working with the soil. For me, work is the most important thing; that’s why I moved here....
Lately, the cluster farming agricultural model is becoming increasingly popular in Ukraine. Fellow villagers or residents of neighboring settlements combine their efforts into a farm cluster to focus on growing specific crops. Examples of...
The idea to grow strawberries and Chinese leaf appeared in 2007-2008 when people from Khorokhoryn went to Poland as migrant workers and observed the farming practices of Polish farms. After gaining some knowledge and experience abroad,...
#COVID19, fires near Chornobyl, now a sandstorm – what's next, locusts, ask Kyiv residents who are being asked to keep their windows closed by officials. Climate change is cited as reason of storm – an abnormally dry winter...
Skifian Oyster, the first oyster farm in mainland Ukraine, appeared in 2014. The name refers to Scythia, the ancient Greek name for the northern coast of the Black Sea and all the lands north-east of Europe. The enterprise is situated on...
Fifteen years ago, more than a hundred people lived in Desyatyny, Zhytomyr Oblast. Today, this rural community counts only 30 inhabitants. The village would have completely disappeared if not for one brave and enterprising man, Olesandr...
The tumultuous economy of the 1990 s affected Ukrainians in very different ways: some lost virtually all they had, succumbing to panic and depression, but others seemed to quickly navigate among new opportunities and reorient to new...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
