OREANDA-NEWS. May 10, 2011. In order to develop agricultural tourism Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ukraine plans to ask the Government to introduce a wine festival. The Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk told during a meeting "Condition and prospects of horticulture, viticulture and winemaking” in Crimea.

"We aaddress to the Government to introduce a wine festival in Ukraine, which we plan to conduct in the Crimea, Yalta”, - Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.

According to the Minister, in Hungary, about 35-40% of wine sold in the cellars, that is one of the factors in the promotion of new tourists. "If we develop agricultural tourism on this base the horticulture, gardening and other segments of the agricultural sector will develop too", - the Minister told.