Dnipropetrovsk region in 2013 could attract UAH 800 million for the development of the agro-industrial complex, which is two times up on 2012.

"Last year some UAH 400 million was attracted to the agrarian sector. This year we plans to increase the sum by almost two times," the press service of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration reported, citing its head Dmytro Kolesnikov as saying.

The press release says that investment projects for 2013 in the pig breeding, livestock breeding and expansion of large agrarian companies have been drawn up.

It is planned that Yuvileiny Auto-Transport Enterprise agricultural company in the fourth quarter of 2013 will commission the second phase of the Yekaterynoslavsky dairy complex with 1,500 cows, investing UAH 64.4 million in it.