Project activities

Development of fruit and vegetable chain

UHBDP works with 5 key market players

Mass media, state bodies, partners

Students

Company service

Manufacturers

Traders

Data: CPM, December 2019

Most of them are rural producers

They live in the countryside

69%

Make decisions together

60%

Experience in the sector 10+ years

56%

Production is the main activity

52%

17%

Registered business

83%

Business without registration

Most men

The number of men is a little more

Key crops and number of producers by crops

32 828

Manufacturers

Vegetables borscht set

9 386

Beekeepers

3 952

Tomatoes

3 943

Berries

3 346

Fruits

3 274

Cucumbers

2 567

Grape

2 563

Crops

1 813

Pepper

1 272

Niche cultures

1 043

Melons, watermelons

697

Greens, salads

494

UHBDP CRM, 6-12-2019

Project services and customer support

Access to quality means of production and innovative solutions

E-voucher program, discounts on means of production and innovative solutions

Access to technology

An online catalog of environmentally friendly technologies
Map of innovators
Small innovative environmental grants

81%

Interviewed farmers use environmentally friendly technologies

66%

The lands of the project clients are cultivated with the use of eco-technologies

36%

Eco technologies have been introduced since 2015

73%

The availability of knowledge about eco-technologies was highly appreciated thanks to the Project

6 872

Unique views of articles on the site of eco-technologies

4 256

The total number of customers who attended events with an eco-component

11 128

Not unique customers who received information through online and offline resources

Development of market relations

Activities of specialists in the development of the fruit and vegetable chain
Shopping forums, business and herd tours
Establishing market relations between different market participants
Development of joint sales in the group and cooperation

I see opportunities to trade my product

13%

17%

33%

19%

yes 38%

Hard no

Hardly yes

2015

22%

36%

30%

yes 66%

Hardly no

Hardly yes

2019

42 initiative groups of producers in the South of Ukraine, work together: buy means of production, carry out marketing and sales
27 grant recipient companies to install equipment, technology, technology that allows them to work with more than 100 other manufacturers
More than 200 business and herd tours in Ukraine and abroad have expanded our opportunities for our clients

Access to finance

Counter Grant Program
Partnership with credit unions, financial institutions
Small innovative gender and environmental grants
Partnership with Megabank

companies received counter grants

companies are supported by small innovative environmental and gender grants

3 000 000

Through partnership with Megabank 3 million Canadian dollars became available to Ukrainian companies to finance projects related to value added in the fruit and vegetable chain

Access to information and knowledge

Events in 18 different formats
Online learning through webinars
Business Wheel Business Calculators
Project website, newsletter, social networks
Business calculator and business wheel
Magazines "Agroindustry", "Your Agribusiness"
Agricultural internship for students

Over 38 000

clients (of which 46% are women ), took part in trainings, field days, conferences, study tours, round tables organized by UHBDP.

50 000

visit uhbdp.org annually

And about 1,500

customers read our weekly newsletter

“Together with the Project, our view of how we work has completely changed: we have changed our cultivation technology, and we have become very focused on selling our products. My family could grow produce but could not sell it. Training in the Project helped to see new opportunities for product sales and new approaches to marketing your business. From now on, we see prospects for the development of our business and we see where we may have not worked enough, all this helps a lot to develop our business of growing environmentally friendly products. "

Empowerment of women

In 2018-2019 together with #UHBDP:

3 112

women gained knowledge and skills in innovative technologies

1 581

women have improved their business and management skills

99%

In more than 20 stage rounds, 99% of the participants were women

55%

UHBDP Small Innovation and Gender Grants Include 55% of Women Business Owners

Market opportunities

I have information on where to sell my products

22%

15%

17%

39%

yes 56%

Solid no

Solid yes