Applications from agricultural producers for preferential gas in April will be accepted from March 1 to March 5 - Ministry of Agrarian Policy
Acceptance of applications from producers of socially significant products in order to purchase natural gas of own production at a reduced price for April 2022 will last from March 1 to March 5. This was stated by First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky, Ukrinform reports.
"From March 1 to March 5, you need to submit applications for the purchase of gas with delivery in April 2022," he said.
Vysotsky added that the lists of manufacturers admitted to the auction will be formed before March 10.
According to him, after that, the auction itself will be held in the second half of the month.
The Deputy Minister noted that a specially created supervision committee, which included representatives of the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the Ministry of Economics and relevant associations, verifies each applicant and decides whether to allow him to bid so that only those who are definitely engaged in social production can buy gas at preferential prices. important food items.
The Deputy Minister added that 395 producers of socially important food products will take part in the auction for the sale of gas from their own production in March 2022. Producers plan to purchase 18.2 million cubic meters of gas.
He recalled that as of February 2022, 256 producers of socially important food products purchased 15.6 million cubic meters of gas on the exchange at preferential prices.