Ukrainian dairy products has not yet allowed any EU country or China
Beginning of the new season does not make the milk operators glad. They have nowhere to direct the surpluses of milk.
In conditions of lackluster world markets the importers either refuse Ukrainian dairy products or value them at very low prices.
New sales markets, promised by officials, have not appeared. European Commission (SANKO) provided the report on last year’s inspections of Ukrainian plants for possibility of deliveries to the EU. According to it, everything is good, but Ukraine is still not ready to deliver dairy products to Europe. The main reason is absence of separation of milk into grade “extra” for deliveries to the EU.
This is for now, then the commissioners still may found some other reasons, after all, milk quotas are already abolished in Europe and there are surpluses of own products.
Problem of deliveries to China remains unsettled too. During a year the authorities have promised to open this market, but there has been no progress in this direction. By the way, 12 Belarusian plants already received certificates for export of dairy products to China. It is not known when Ukrainian plants will receive the same certificates. Experts who were engaged in this issue, are discharged. In particular last week the deputy head of Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine Vitaly Bashinsky was dismissed under the “lustration”. He supervised also subjects of certification of the dairy plants.
Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture make laws, but there is no real help for dairy sector. In particular there is an idea to transfer farmers to the general system of taxation next year. So, in the long term there will be less news about building of new farms. At the same time the Ministry informs that about 100 new and modernised farms with total capacity of 45 thousand cows and 7 thousand heads of young animals will start working by the end 2016 in the country.
At present level of milk prices even started projects can remain unrealized. Investors do not see profitability of this business.