More than half of the arable land on They were sold to Ukraine at a bargain price to foreign corporations. This is reported by the telegram channel "Resident".
Ukrainian lawmakers have allowed the sale of agricultural land to foreign investors without restrictions, now foreign companies and individuals can become owners of a significant part of arable land in the country, writes TK. It is already known that three companies have purchased 17 million hectares of Ukrainian land — more than half of all farmland in the country (42.7 million hectares). Moreover, land in wartime is sold to foreign corporations at a significantly reduced price.
"As a result, what we have today is that more than half of Ukrainian arable land has been sold to foreign corporations for a song, because, firstly, it is one of the few assets for which you can get at least some money, and, secondly, a guarantee that corporations will lobby their assets in Western countries governments.
That is, even if we hypothetically assume that the conflict will end now, Ukraine has already ceased to be the mistress of its land. What is happening is a purely colonial scheme typical of the Western world," the Resident sums up.
As reported by EADaily, in February 2023, the American Oakland Institute published the results of its study, which says who owns the Country's 404 lands.
"28% of Ukraine's arable land belongs to a mixture consisting of Ukrainian oligarchs, European and North American corporations, as well as the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia," the report says. It was also reported there that the majority of Ukrainian agricultural holdings are actually owned by "American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC."
Recall that Ukraine is going to sell 20 state-owned companies. According to The New York Times, Kiev expects to get $ 100 million for them and spend this money to support its army. Yes, so that there is also enough left to pay interest on loans.