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Despite the fact that as of mid-May, the food availability index (FAI) is 1.3% higher than at the end of April, it is 37% lower than the pre-war level. Before the invasion, the FAI was 12.4. So, a person with an average salary could buy a number of «baskets of goods» equivalent to a stock for 12.4 months. The current...

Purchase prices for milk in Ukraine are almost unchanged with some point strengthening. However, these are not even pre-war figures. During the four months of full-scale war, Ukraine's dairy industry was able to adapt to completely new realities and continues to address new challenges: from a shortage o...

As of June 8, 2022, total losses from the war in Ukraine's agriculture reached 4.3 billion dollars. These figures are not final as the war continues and the losses are growing every day. Anna Lavrenyuk, General Director of the Association of Milk Producers (AMP), told about the main challenges faced by dairy farms during the webinar «Dairy farming in&nb...

The indirect losses in agriculture due to production decrease, logistics disruption and lower prices for export-oriented commodities are estimated at $ 23.3 billion. USA. It is stated in the analysis «Agricultural War Losses Review Ukraine. Rapid Loss Assessment"**, prepared by the team of the Center for Food Research and Land Use at KSE Inst...

During the three months of the war, Ukrainian dairy farms lost only at least 50 thousand cows. This was announced by the General Director of the Association of Milk Producers (AMP) Anna Lavrenyuk during the webinar «Dairy farming in war: problems, trends, practices», which took place on June 16, 2022. Preliminary estimates of the analytical department of AMP coincide with the information from the report of Kyiv School of Economics. As of June 8, the estimated value of&...

Farmers should sell foreign exchange earnings from exports at the rate set by commercial banks of Ukraine, but not at the rate of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). This statemen was mentioned and addressed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Kyryl Shevchenko and Minister of Agri...

For the second day in a row, russian troops are shelling Glukhiv. If the day before the main target of the occupiers was the military, today they have taken up civilian infrastructure. At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, three series of explosions erupted in Glukhiv. Since the explosions were serial, the locals concluded that it was a hailstorm, o...

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine caused damages to the agricultural sector of the country for the total amount of $4.29 billion. It is stated in the analysis "Agricultural War Damages Review Ukraine"**, prepared by the team of the Center for Food Research and Land Use KSE Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. "Russia's aggression affects not only the ability to freely export our agricultural products and feed about 400 million people a year around the globe. Damage to land, infrastructure, and agr...

At the beginning of June, an accounting rate was raised up to 25%, which was approved by the decision of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine № 262-rsh «On the amount of accounting rate». This step of the National Bank of Ukraine will negatively affect business, including agricultural one. This opinion was expressed by the UAC Deputy Chairman Denys Marchuk. «For business representatives, including agricultural ones, the financial rate of banks has increased to 25...

Farmers will not have time to export the surplus of available grain in the amount of 22−23 million tons before the new harvest, which will begin in two weeks. There is a problem of grain storage. This statement was announced at a briefing by the UAC Chairman Andrii Dykun, LB correspondent reports. «Before the active phase of the war, we could export up&nb...