₴7,000 per cow: Mykolaiv region to pay out ₴37 million in aid

NikVestiA farm in Lotskyn, Mykolaiv region. Archive photo NikVesti

In Mykolaiv region, 873 applications for aid towards the upkeep of cows have been approved. A total of 37 million hryvnias is to be paid out under these applications.

This was announced during a briefing by Yurii Yaskiv, head of the Land Issues Settlement Division at the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration’s Department of Agro-Industrial Development, according to NikVesti.

Farms keeping between three and 100 cows were eligible for the aid. Seven thousand hryvnias were allocated per animal.

«We have provided support to the livestock sector in the form of subsidies for maintaining livestock herds. For cattle, 873 applications have been approved for a total of 37 million hryvnias,» said Yurii Yaskiv.

The region also approved 27 applications for aid for keeping goats and sheep. According to Yurii Yaskiv, residents of the region are keeping fewer and fewer animals, whilst the number is increasing on commercial farms.

«Recently, there has been a trend towards a decrease in livestock numbers on private farms, whilst on commercial farms the opposite is true – numbers are increasing,» said Yurii Yaskiv.

As a reminder, NikVesti previously reported on farmer Liubov Khodarina from the village of Lotskyne, who reduced her herd from 50 to 25 cows due to the war and a shortage of feed. In 2024, she explained that she was selling milk to middlemen for 8–9 hryvnias per litre, which was not enough to maintain her farm. Due to the drought, she had to use her winter hay reserves as early as the summer.

The farmer also complained about difficulties in obtaining state aid: according to her, the application period lasted only three days instead of the expected two months. Farm owners had to spend hours at their computers to register, whilst at the same time looking after their animals and preparing feed.

At the start of 2026, there were 29,500 cows in the Mykolaiv region. At the same time, between January and July, the region produced 6.3 per cent less milk than in the same period of 2025 — 108,700 tonnes.