KIEV, Feb. 17 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry hopes that cooperation with China's CCEC will be expanded and that a loan of $1.5 billion for investment projects in the agricultural sector will be raised in 2015.

"We'll fruitfully work with our Chinese partners and make the second tranche of $1.5 billion available this year," Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko told reporters at the 11th investment conference of Dragon Capital in Kiev.