| Taras Kutovy | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine |
| Primeminister: | Volodymyr Groysman |
| Term Start: | 14 April 2016[1] |
| Term End: | 22 November 2018 |
| Predecessor: | Oleksiy Pavlenko |
| Successor: | Maxim Martynyuk (acting) |
| Office1: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
| Constituency1: | Poltava Oblast, No. 151 |
| Term Start1: | 12 December 2012 |
| Term End1: | 2 December 2014 |
| Predecessor1: | Constituency established |
| Successor1: | Ruslan Bogdan |
| Birth Date: | 1976 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Death Place: | Poltava Oblast, Ukraine |
| Party: | Petro Poroshenko Bloc |
| Otherparty: | Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform |
| Occupation: | Economist, statesman |
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Taras Viktorovych Kutovy (Ukrainian: Тарас Вікторович Кутовий; 25 February 1976 – 21 October 2019) was a Ukrainian economist and politician who served as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food from 2016 to 2018. He previously served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014, representing Ukraine's 151st electoral district in northern Poltava Oblast.
Kutovy was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform candidate in Ukraine's 151st electoral district.[2] He was re-elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as part of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[3]
On 14 April 2016, he was appointed minister of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine in the Groysman government.[4] On 23 May 2017, he announced that he wanted to resign from this position and asked lawmakers to support his decision.[4] [5] On 22 November 2018, the parliament approved his resignation.[6] Kutovy died in a helicopter crash in Ukraine's Poltava Oblast on 21 October 2019 at the age of 43.[7]