This year, 3.5 million hryvnias are planned to be allocated from the regional budget to finance agricultural programs, reported the head of the main department of agriculture and food of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Litvinchuk. According to him, grain producers have enough opportunities to sell it under the terms of pledge purchases, to the intervention, seed funds or the state reserve. In particular, agricultural producers of the region supplied 3,363 tonnes of grain under the terms of pledge purchases, received over 1 million hryvnias for it, and later, on more favorable terms, sold it to state resources. In total, 5.5 thousand tonnes of grain were sold to the state reserve in 2003. Last year, the regional council by its decision directed 800 thousand hryvnias from the regional budget for partial support of the implementers of the "Grain of Volyn 2003" program. Agricultural producers, for the amount of funds received, supplied the corresponding amount of grain to regional resources at the weighted average prices that had developed on the agricultural exchanges of Ukraine.