Cow subsidy 2026 and 2027: how to apply in the State Agrarian Register

The state pays a special budget subsidy (спеціальна бюджетна дотація) of 7 000 UAH for each cow to owners of 3 to 100 cows identified and registered in the Unified State Register of Animals: private individuals, sole proprietors (ФОП) and companies (items 4 and 7 of the Procedure approved by Cabinet Resolution No. 918a). You apply only in the State Agrarian Register (Державний аграрний реєстр, ДАР) and sign with a qualified electronic signature (КЕП); BankID works for registering but not for signing the application. In 2026 intake opened on 7 April and was suspended on 9 April, when applications reached the money available, and after 31 October the Procedure takes no applications for the current year, so the 2026 round is over. As of 11.11.2026 the state had paid 3 743 of about 19-20 thousand applications, 167.5 mln UAH. ДАР has not announced a 2027 window yet; the Procedure allows one from 1 February, so have the КЕП, the ДАР account, the ear tags and the cows' registration ready by the end of January.

Last verified: 11.11.2026. The rules follow the texts of the Cabinet of Ministers' resolutions in the editions in force on 11.11.2026 (each edition is named in the source list); the intake dates come from ДАР's and the Ministry of Economy's announcements, and ADAM counted the applications and payments on ДАР's public analytics portal. We update the page when ДАР opens or closes intake.

Who can get the cow subsidy, and how much#

The subsidy is 7 000 UAH for each cow that belongs to the applicant on the application date and is identified and registered (item 7 of Procedure No. 918a). Under item 4 you must own three to a hundred cows, and the limit covers the whole herd: an owner of 120 cows does not qualify. Both dairya and beef cows count. No land is needed for this subsidy.

Ukrainian citizens may apply, including sole proprietors, and so may companies whose founders are all Ukrainian citizens (item 6). The subsidy does not go to applicants:

• with tax debt on the 1st of the month before the application (ДАР checks this with the State Tax Service automatically);
• in bankruptcy or liquidation, under sanctions, held criminally liable, with an unexpunged or outstanding conviction, or wanted;
• working, on the application date, on territories of active fighting or occupation with no end date set;
• doing business in Russia or Belarus;
• whose managers or beneficial owners are in the register of corruption offenders.

When to apply, and why intake lasts only days#

The Procedure allows applications from 1 February to 31 October, but only after ДАР announces intake, and it stops intake as soon as the applications add up to the money for the programme (item 7 of Procedure No. 918). If money is left over or more arrives, ДАР announces a new intake. In practice the window has lasted from one day to two and a half weeks:

After the suspension on 9 April the Ministry of Economy promiseda a new intake for the remaining money once the submitted applications had been processed. As of 11.11.2026 ДАР's news carries no such announcement, and after 31 October intake for 2026 is no longer possible.

When intake opens in 2027#

No dates have been announced yet. The earliest window under the Procedure starts on 1 February 2027, and in 2025 intake opened on 3 February. The start and length of intake are announceda on the websites of ДАР and the ministry, so follow ДАР's news from the end of January. In 2026, 13 205 applications, almost two thirds, came in on the first day, so preparing after the announcement is already too late.

Get ready before intake opens#

Nothing below depends on the intake window, and all of it takes longer than the window itself. Check every item by the end of January:

1. <strong>КЕП.</strong> Without a qualified electronic signature the application cannot be signed (item 6 of Procedure No. 918). <a href="https://www.dar.gov.ua/cards-faq/u-mene-nemaie-kvalifikovanogo-elektronnogo-pidpisu-de-ya-mozhu-yogo-otrimati/">According to ДАР's list</a>, a КЕП is issued by, among others, the tax service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and online by the Дія portal and banking services.
2. <strong>ДАР account.</strong> Register in advance and check your phone number and e-mail.
3. <strong>Ear tags and the register.</strong> Each cow must be identified and registered in the Unified State Register of Animals on the application date: <a href="https://www.dar.gov.ua/cards-faq/yakscho-informatsiya-nepovna/">ДАР counts</a> only such animals.
4. <strong>The «Тварини» (Animals) section.</strong> Check in your account that the number of cows matches yours.
5. <strong>Taxes.</strong> There must be no debt on the 1st of the month before the application: for an application in February that is 1 January. How to pay the land tax is explained in <a href="/en/blog/zemelnyi-podatok-i-mpz">a separate article</a>.
6. <strong>Bank account.</strong> Check your IBAN: the bank details are fixed at the moment you sign the application (item 6).

What ear tags and registering a cow cost#

Ear tags are ordered only from the state enterprise Agency for Identification and Registration of Animals (АІРТ). Initial identification of a cow costs 108 UAH with VAT on a private individual's holding and 175 UAH on a legal entity's (АІРТ tariffs from 12.03.2026a). A state veterinarian certifies the registration card within three days, the owner sends it to АІРТ within five working days, and АІРТ enters the data in the register within ten working days (АІРТa). Together that is more than three weeks, while intake in 2026 lasted three days.

How to apply in the State Agrarian Register, step by step#

The steps follow ДАР's illustrated instructiona and items 6-7 of Procedure No. 918:

1. On dar.gov.ua click «Увійти до кабінету» (log in to your account), sign in with a КЕП (key file and password) or BankID, enter your e-mail and phone number, then the two five-digit codes sent to them, and click «Зареєструватися» (register) (<a href="https://www.dar.gov.ua/cards-useful/yak-zareyestruvatysia/">ДАР</a>).
2. In the «Тварини» (Animals) section, filter the list by sex «Корова» (cow) and check the number.
3. In the «Доступні програми» (available programmes) section, click «Подати заявку» (apply) next to the programme.
4. Answer the questionnaire and agree to your data being checked on paper and on site.
5. The system generates a completed application; nobody calculates the amount by hand. Check it and sign it with a КЕП: the application counts as submitted from the moment of signing (item 6), and at that moment you also join the contract with Укрдержфонд, the Ukrainian State Fund for Farm Support.

Since 26.01.2026 an unfinished application can be saved as «Чернетка» (draft). An application returned for corrections has the status «Очікує усунення недоліків» (awaiting correction), and you can withdraw a submitted application yourself until it is included in the payment register (ДАРa). Questions: the ДАР contact centre on 044 339 92 15 or 044 224 59 33, support@dar.gov.ua, or the regional office of Укрдержфонд.

Registering a household farm in the State Agrarian Register#

A household farm (особисте селянське господарство) registers in ДАР as a private individual, but, as ДАР warnsa, not all programmes are open to individuals. The system takes your name and tax number from state databases itselfa, and pulls your plots and animals from the State Land Cadastre, the register of property rights and the Register of Animals by tax number. So an error is corrected in the registera it came from, not in ДАР; the article on the cadastral numbera helps find a plot's data. The registration extracta is downloaded in your account. ДАР worksa from a phone if the КЕП file is saved on it. Since 20.02.2026 the system has been fully owned by the statea; according to the minister, it has over 200 000 users and over 70 programmes.

After you apply: review, contract and payment#

The deadlines are set by item 7 of Procedure No. 918:

• Укрдержфонд reviews the application within 10 working days and, through ДАР, approves it with the amount or refuses it with reasons; an incomplete application may be left without action.
• Within 7 calendar days of approval you sign, with a КЕП, an addendum to the contract with Укрдержфонд.
• Each month, by the 10th, Укрдержфонд submits the lists of recipients, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy approves the distribution within 7 working days, and Укрдержфонд transfers the money within 7 working days of receiving it from the Ministry of Economy.
• If the treasury returns a payment because of wrong bank details, the new details must be signed within two days of the notice.

There is no fixed payment date: it depends on when the money arrives. The subsidy is funded under the World Bank's ARISE project (ДАР, 03.07.2026a). After the changes made by Resolution No. 1319 of 21.10.2026, the Ministry of Economy is the main budget holder, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy carries out the measures, and Укрдержфонд transfers the money (item 2).

What the subsidy may be spent on#

Item 5¹ of the Procedure allows the money to cover field work, electricity, veterinary services and medicines, fuel, crop protection products, feed, seed, fertilisers and keeping the cows. The chosen items are written into the contract with Укрдержфонд, and if they are not met, the money has to be returned (item 6). Feed and veterinary medicines are in the Livestock sectiona of ADAM's catalogue.

Who applied in 2026, and who was paid#

ADAM counted the application lists on bi.dar.gov.uaa, ДАР's public analytics portal, which has run since 11.03.2026a in test mode and does not guarantee its data are correct. The paid counts match ДАР's announcements: 3 743 recipients for cows (03.07.2026a), and 464 and 536 for goats and sheep (30.06a and 21.07.2026a).

16 420 cow applications, 607.6 mln UAH, remain unpaid; whether they were rejected or are waiting for money has not been made public. The paid share is the same for individuals, sole proprietors and companies, 18.5-19.2 %. 80.6 % of applicants had three to five cows. Most applications came from Vinnytsia (2 608), Khmelnytskyi (2 363), Ivano-Frankivsk (1 939), Chernivtsi (1 404), Odesa (1 288) and Zakarpattia (1 246) oblasts.

How we counted#

On 11.11.2026 we opened on the portal the application lists for the 2026 and 2025 cow subsidy and the 2026 goat and sheep subsidy, with all submission dates up to 10 November 2026, and counted only the numbers of applications and head and the amounts; we kept no names and no individual applications. The portal shows 20 163 cow applications, while the Ministry of Economy gave 18 901a on the evening of 9 April. It is the same for goats and sheep: 1 310 applications on the portal against 1 060 in the same announcement. The difference has not been explained, so the text speaks of about 19-20 thousand cow applications.

Goats and sheep#

The subsidy for breeding goats and/or sheep is 2 000 UAH a head for owners of 5 to 500 identified and registered head (items 4 and 7 of Procedure No. 918). The other rules are the same as for cows: ДАР, a КЕП, the 1 February to 31 October frame (ДАР's programme pagea). In 2026 intake opened on 7 April and was suspended the same day (ДАРa). All 1 310 applications came in on 7 April, and 1 000 of them were paid, 231.6 mln UAH (measured by ADAM on bi.dar.gov.ua on 11.11.2026).

According to the Ministry of Economy's announcement of 07.04.2026a, the support can be used once and in one line only: cows, or goats and sheep. Anyone with an application approved this year for one of these subsidies has no right to compensation for buying breeding animals (item 35 of the Procedure approved by Resolution No. 950a).

Bees: no state subsidy since August 2025#

The special budget subsidy for bee colonies, 200 UAH a colonya, was part of the Procedure approved by Cabinet Resolution No. 107 of 07.02.2018a. That resolution lost force on 8 August 2025 under Resolution No. 950 of 06.08.2025, and the new Procedure supports breeding animals and the building of farms, with nothing for bees. As of 11.11.2026 there is no state subsidy for bees, and ДАР's news has announced no such programme.

The last distribution we found was in 2020: the Ministry of Economy approveda 239.4 mln UAH of subsidy for almost 1.2 mln bee colonies of over 23.4 thousand beekeepers.

Beekeepers are left with donor programmes run through ДАР. In 2026 a grant cycle of the Ministry of Economy and FAO, funded by the EU in Zakarpattia oblast, supported, among others, producers of Zakarpattia honey; applications were accepted until 14 June 2026 (ДАРa).

For farms: which programmes are open, closed or announced#

The owner of a household farm can apply for the cow, goat and sheep subsidies, and for demining also on paper through the local administration or community (громада). Most other programmes need the status of a sole proprietor, a farm or a company. As of 11.11.2026:

Machinery compensation is paid for machines on the Ministry of Economy's list with localisation above 40 %, and for tractors and combines under a separate threshold (items 4-5 of Resolution No. 130); choosing a tractor is covered in a separate articlea, and irrigation after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in the glossarya.

The per-hectare subsidy#

Procedure No. 918 provides 4 000 UAH per hectare for owners and users of 1 to 120 ha and 8 000 UAH/ha on territories where fighting or occupation has ended (items 4, 5, 7). If a plot is leased out, only the tenant is entitled to the subsidy. ДАР openeda the last intake at the 4 000 UAH rate on 12.02.2025 and suspended it the same daya; none was announced in 2026.

Under Resolution No. 886a, companies and sole proprietors on territories of possible and active fighting are paid 1 000 UAH per hectare, for at most 10 000 ha (item 4); the last intake was on 10-25 September 2025 (ДАРa). The subsidy of up to 1 000 UAH/ha for Ukrainian-made complex fertilisers opened on 01.10.2026a and was suspended on 07.10.2026a, because production of the required fertilisers has been partly lost to the war (ДАР). Cotton in Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts got up to 10 000 UAH/ha, with intake on 10.06-10.07.2026 (ДАРa).

5-7-9 loans for farms#

The «Affordable Loans 5-7-9 %» programmea runs under Cabinet Resolution No. 28a through authorised banks. For agricultural producers a working-capital loan costs 10 % a year (item 16), the limit together with related persons is 90 mln UAH (item 10), and loans for agricultural activity run to 31 August 2027; loans of 2022-2026 can be extended to that date (item 12). In the high war-risk zone a working-capital loan costs 7 %, and an investment loan 1 % for the first five years, then 5 % (item 16); since Resolution No. 1302 of 21.10.2026 the limit there is the same, 90 mln UAH instead of the former 150 mln (item 10). An agricultural borrower must be registered in ДАР and meet the World Bank's environmental and social standards (item 17). Under martial law agricultural producers have received 60.47 bln UAH of these loans (Ministry of Finance, 02.11.2026a).

Common mistakes#

These claims still turn up online, and the first is even on ДАР's programme pagea:

• <strong>«5 300 UAH a cow, applications until 15 November».</strong> Those were the 2022 terms; since 2024 the subsidy has been 7 000 UAH.
• <strong>«You can still apply for 2026».</strong> Intake was suspended on 9 April, and after 31 October it is impossible (item 7 of Procedure No. 918).
• <strong>«BankID is enough».</strong> BankID only registers an individual or a sole proprietor; the application is signed with a КЕП.
• <strong>«Only those not paid in 2025».</strong> In 2026 everyone could apply, regardless of 2022-2025.
• <strong>«Intake from 1 May to 30 June».</strong> The current frame is 1 February to 31 October.
• <strong>«Only for landowners or tenants».</strong> The cow subsidy needs no land (item 4).
• <strong>«With over 100 cows, the first 100 are paid».</strong> An owner of more than 100 cows does not qualify.
• <strong>«There will be a second wave in 2026».</strong> There was none, and after 31 October it is impossible.
• <strong>«Multiply your cows by 7 000 and enter the amount».</strong> That was the old form; now the system generates the application.
• <strong>«200 UAH per bee colony».</strong> That subsidy was abolished together with Resolution No. 107 in August 2025.

How we checked this#

The text was prepared with the help of AI from ADAM's research notes of 11.11.2026. The same day a separate check, which did not write the text, reopened every source: every Cabinet resolution the page cites and its amendments, in the editions in force on 11.11.2026, every announcement by ДАР, the ministry and the government that the page cites, АІРТ's tariffs, and the application and payment counts on bi.dar.gov.ua (totals only, no applicant data). After the check we corrected the date Resolution No. 107 lost force, the date of the related-persons rule, and the 80 % conditions for orchard grants and the 40 % for machinery, and added the 5-7-9 loan limit in the high war-risk zone under Resolution No. 1302. We did not phone ДАР or Укрдержфонд and submitted no applications.