Yosyp is born on 2 January 1956 in the village of Loshkivtsi, Ukraine SSR, and graduated from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Agricultural Institute, majoring in mechanical engineering in 1977.

[1][2] Prior to Yosyp's ministerial role, he had held several early positions such as a diagnostic engineer of Kamianets-Podilskyi district association Agricultural machinery of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, and later as a chief engineer of the state farm named after Shchorsa VO Soyuzsortnasinnyaovoch of the Dubno Raion of the Rivne Oblast from 1977 to 1979; a designer and senior engineer of the Kamianets-Podilskyi branch of the Kyiv special PKB Ukrsortnasinniaovoch from 1979 to 1981; a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1983; work with the Komsomol from 1981 to 1991;[2] the head of the Belarus technical center of the Agropromtekhnika enterprise from 1991 to 1994.

[4] As the Head of the sub-committee on economic reforms, pricing, taxes and structural policy of the Committee on Agricultural Industry, Land Resources and Rural Social Development.

Later during the People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 3rd convocation from the SPU-SelPU from March 1998 to April 2002, he was listed No.9.

During the 2007 elections, he received a deputy's mandate on the list of Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc No.4.

He stated that his choice was made due to severe disagreements with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over political, personnel, and economic matters, as well as the ethics of relationships between members of the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine.