OREANDA-NEWS. On March 30, 2009 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated that Ukraine can be one of the biggest exporters of ecologically pure agricultural product. She disclosed this at a press conference on the outcomes of her visit to Japan.

According to Yulia Tymoshenko, during her visit to Japan the agreements on stirring up bipartite cooperation in the agro-industrial complex, in particular, the production of ecologically pure food products were achieved.

“We have agreed that we can attract the Japanese companies to cooperation with our agrarian enterprises regarding the production of finished food products, ecologically pure – such that are appropriate for deliveries to Japan – and provide a part of Japan’s food product needs,” the Head of Ukrainian Government told, adding that Japan imports 60% of food products from all countries of the world.  

The Prime Minister stressed that Japanese companies want to work with Ukraine with great pleasure. “And only absolute lack of understanding of Japan’s potential during the preceding years in Ukraine, absolute misunderstanding of all the concepts of efficient cooperation resulted in fail to use in Ukraine this resource of our common cooperation. And, in general, during 17 years of independence it was the first visit of Ukraine’s Prime Minister to Japan. I believe, even this fact is abnormal,” Yulia Tymoshenko noted.