FARM Activities in Mykolaiv Oblast

Completed Project

“Strengthening Mykolaiv Fishers’ Association through Development of Clusters”

Ukrainian Partner: Mykolaiv Fishers’ Association (Mykoliav, Ukraine)
Canadian Partner: Canadian Aquaculture Systems (Ontario, Ukraine)

The goal of the project was to develop a cluster concept for fishing production in the Mykoliav oblast. The Cluster development idea was innovative for agricultural sector and the Association members consider it is an effective way to mobilize group of producers and/or processors, establish information exchange; assist in promoting products, develop marketing concept. It was also beneficial in developing a marketing and pricing policy in the Mykolaiv oblast and Ukraine; building links between Mykolaiv’s scientific institutions and local fish producers and strengthening Fishers’ Association and making it more effective to its members.

The Association is valued by its members – small and big and experience and reputation of the Mykoliav Fishers Association is one of the main precondition of sustainability. The Association plans to build upon the results achieved in this project. The Association hopes to continue to cooperate with Academy on Post Gradual Education in further developing the cluster concept and disseminating it to other regions through academic network. The Establishment of marketing channels will be long term activity and as it will be in parallel to improving market conditions and price formation. Small businesses will be presented in one group (cluster) and therefore processors and sellers will be interested in having stable large volumes of products. One of the cluster tasks is to start developing storage and primary processing facilities that will ensure long term sustainability of the project.

The major achievement is that Members of the Association, most of them small fishers have realized that they can only achieve any changes in terms of better business environment if they jointly present their opinion in the oblast. Therefore they are interested in remaining members of the association.

Final Report Coming Soon