On February 17, the XIV reporting and election conference of the regional Association of Farmers was held in the city of Lutsk. \nAs reported by the head of the Volyn organization of the Association of Farmers and Landowners, Bohdan Prus, 641 farmers work in Volyn, which is 43 more than last year. They cultivate 14 thousand hectares of land, and last year they took 6.5 thousand hectares from their fellow villagers. Only every sixth of Volyn farmers has a tractor, every fTifth C a combine harvester, every eighth C a truck. \nNow farmers are going through far from the best of times; in fact, they do not have access to state resources allocated for the agricultural sector, although about 80 percent of production is made by private farms. People who work on their own plot, the size of which is up to 2 ha, are in fact farmers, although they do not register as the latter in order to avoid problems with the tax authorities.. \nAs B. Prus stated, for the effective development of the agricultural sector, the adoption of the Law of Ukraine UOn the Development of the Agricultural SectorF is necessary. \nAt the Conference, delegates were elected to the regular XIV Congress of Farmers of Ukraine, which will be held in Kyiv on February 28. \n