On December 16, 2025 in Lviv under the chairmanship of the President of the Chamber, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor of the Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology named after S.Z. Gzytskyi Pavlo Muzika, an extended meeting of the Board of authorized representatives of the Lviv Agrarian Chamber was held.

About the results of work for 2025. Ihor Vuytsyk, head of the LAP, made a speech and outlined the key results of the activity:

•   The Chamber’s agricultural advisory service was entered into the official register of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy in May 2025. The service includes 22 advisers and expert advisers.

•   The monthly electronic Bulletin “AgroForum” continues to spread the successful experience of small and medium-sized farms. During its existence, 244 numbers were issued, 24 of them in 2025. The work of the graduation editor, adviser to the senior lecturer of LNUVMB, Dmytro Solomonka, was especially noted.

•   Within the framework of cooperation with the UN World Food Program (WFP), the Chamber provided humanitarian support to socially vulnerable categories of the population. 248,620 beneficiaries in eight regions received food packages with a total weight of 1,482.9 tons worth more than UAH 62 million.

In Lviv Oblast, 118 institutions — hospitals, shelters for IDPs, boarding schools, orphanages and rehabilitation centers — received monthly assistance.

In total, more than 740 tons of products worth UAH 32.5 million were distributed in the Lviv region.

 Environmental and innovative projects

•   Project “Protection of biodiversity of cross-border territories of Ukraine and Poland from the population of borschivna”:

• Agreements have been concluded with 9 communities of the Carpathian region on co-financing (10% of the project budget).

• Protective equipment, petrol mowers, battery sprayers, equipment for safe work were purchased and handed over to communities. To increase the capacity of communities, tractors, road mowers, plows and dump trailers were purchased.

•   The “Center of Excellence for Smart Agriculture and Circular Bioeconomy” project is implemented in partnership with Lviv Polytechnic National University, Institute of the Carpathian Region NAAS of Ukraine and 19 partners from four EU countries.

Challenges

In the speech of the member of the Board, full academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Grigory Sedil, the danger of an invasive plant – borschivna, imported from the Caucasus back in the 1960s – was emphasized. It has spread to large areas of Ukraine and the EU and poses a serious threat to biodiversity, unless a systematic fight is started.

Solutions and new partnerships

•   The members of the Board unanimously approved the report of the head of the Chamber for 2025.

During the Board, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Faculty of Journalism of LNU named after Ivan Franko (dean — Maryan Lozynskyi) and the Lviv Agrarian Chamber (president Pavlo Muzyka on behalf of the Chamber).

Source. Lviv Agrarian Chamber