About the Project
“Gardens of Victory 2.0” is a project that implements a next-generation social agricultural cooperative model combining:
- smart technologies and precision agriculture
- local processing and value addition
- a digital sales platform
- training and reskilling of vulnerable groups
- cluster-based cooperation among MSMEs, communities, and academia
The project creates a local agro-economic ecosystem that ensures sustainable incomes for small producers, strengthens community food security, and promotes social inclusion.
The model implemented by the project is scalable and can be replicated in other communities across the region and Ukraine where there is an established culture of agricultural production and processing.
Objectives
- Introduce a Smart & Green Farming model using IoT technologies, digital field mapping, and CRM systems.
- Establish a social agricultural cooperative.
- Develop a digital sales platform for cooperative products.
- Build a sustainable cooperative business model integrated into the regional innovation ecosystem with scaling potential.
- Establish and equip a mini processing facility to generate added value from agricultural products.
Key Problems and Opportunities in Focus
Challenges:
- Fragmentation of MSMEs in the agricultural sector: up to 80% of small farmers operate individually, without access to shared infrastructure and processing facilities.
- Low levels of digitalization and innovation, limited access to smart tools, accounting systems, analytics, and yield forecasting solutions.
- Sale of raw materials without added value, insufficient access to processing, packaging, and certification.
- Social vulnerability of the population in the context of war.
- Women, veterans, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and the unemployed have limited access to self-employment and cooperative instruments.
- Communities’ need to restore local food systems.
Opportunities:
- Growing demand for organic and socially responsible products.
- Support for cluster-based and cooperative models from international programs.
- Access to global markets for Ukrainian agricultural products.
Expected Impact
Economic Impact:
- Establishment of a cooperative with at least 30 members;
- 20–30% increase in MSME incomes;
- Creation of new jobs within the community;
- Launch of a mini processing facility and a digital sales platform;
- Growth in local budget tax revenues.
Social Impact:
- Training of at least 150 individuals;
- Integration of women, veterans, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) into local agricultural value chains;
- Increased community food self-sufficiency.
Innovation Impact:
- Implementation of Smart & Green Farming;
- Application of IoT, digital field mapping, and CRM systems;
- Creation of a demonstration model for scaling.
Institutional Impact:
- Strengthening the role of the AGROVIN Agricultural Cluster as a coordinator of innovation implementation in the agricultural sector;
- Integration of the project into the regional innovation ecosystem;
- Development and enhancement of a sustainable cooperative business model.
Donor / Investor Engagement Format
- Grant funding
- Co-investment model
- Co-financing
- Impact investment
- Technical assistance
Readiness Status: At the stage of preparing a grant application and conducting negotiations with development partners.
Existing Elements:
- Cooperative concept and structure developed
- Pilot participants preliminarily identified
- List of equipment and training modules prepared
- Basic financial model developed
Infrastructure, innovation-driven, and socially oriented
24 months
Total Budget: EUR 120,000
Indicative Cost Structure:
- 35% — establishment and equipment of the mini processing facility
- 20% — development of the digital platform and CRM system
- 20% — training programs and advisory support
- 15% — Smart Farming demonstration site
- 10% — project management and administration
Funding Logic:
- 80% — grant funding
- 10% — contributions from cooperative members
- 10% — private partners / investors
Vinnytsia Oblast: a pilot in one community with subsequent scaling across the region.
- Farms (micro, small, and medium-sized).
- Communities of Vinnytsia Oblast.
- Educational and research institutions.
- Processing enterprises.
- Logistics companies.
- Social groups (women, veterans, internally displaced persons — IDPs).
- International partners (FAO, GIZ, USAID Agro, etc.).
AGROVIN Agricultural Cluster
- Agricultural MSMEs of Vinnytsia Oblast
- Research Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) in Podillia
To discuss partnership opportunities:
Contact person: Serhii Hutsol
Email: agropart@i.ua