OREANDA-NEWS. October 05, 2012. Already this year the Agrarian Fund begins forward purchases of grain of a harvest of 2013 on an improved mechanism. According to it, the signing of forward contracts will occur during the autumn field work, the mechanism of calculation is changed, according to which the payments will be done in two tranches. This was announced by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.

"Changes to the procedure for forward purchases of grain concerning the terms (moved for the duration of the complex autumn field work) and changed the mechanism of calculation, according to which payments will take place in two tranches:

- the first (advance) - will be calculated at 50% of the minimum intervention prices for selected crops for the current marketing period;

- the second (final) - will be calculated based on the weighted average price fixing, which was formed in the organized agricultural market at the time of renewal of the grain, "- said the Minister.

In addition, Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said that become effective mortgage purchases, in which farmers will be able to attract the budget at the rate of National Bank loan (6.8% pa).

"Agrarian Fund successfully implements intervenes of flour for making social breads in all areas. Needs of the regions in the flour for making bread varieties is 79 tons per month. Today, between the Agrarian Fund, Regional Administration and bakeries entered into force agreements for the supply of 34 tons of flour per month", - says Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.