KIEV, Nov. 5 – Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry says it will insist on retaining the beneficial VAT taxation regime for farmers until 2018 when it meets shortly with representatives of the International Monetary Fund.

"The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry will at a meeting with the IMF insist on retaining the beneficial VAT taxation regime for farmers… We will try and insist, and convince, that it must not be done, as the Finance Ministry failed to convince them," Deputy Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Yaroslav Krasnopolsky said at a roundtable talk entitled "What is Threatening the 2016 Agrarian Season?" in Kiev on Wednesday.