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From August 1, the value added tax (VAT) rate of 20% on live cattle, raw milk materials and other agricultural raw materials was restored. Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine supports the Association of Milk Producers on the need for a thorough reduction of the VAT rate to 14% throughout the food chain. This was emphasized by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyi during the Agricultural Tax Headquarters on July 26. «A transi...

Prices for exchange-traded dairy products in July showed a decline, reports Volodymyr Andriets, according to IFCN. Prices for butter — minus 4.1% (due to falling Chinese demand), skimmed milk powder — minus 6.8% (production generally exceeds demand, except in the Asian region), whol...

Focus on maximum comfort of cows — one of the main reasons for consistently high productivity at TOV «Agrofirma im. Shevchenka» — our second location of the Days of the Farm-2021. In particular, even now, in the heat of 32−33 degrees, the milk yield on the farm has not changed and is 32 liters per dairy cow. And under more comfortable conditions&n...

For the sixth month in a row, raw milk prices remain stable, which is an unprecedented fact in the dairy industry. This was announced by the chief analyst of the Association of Milk Producers Volodymyr Andriіets. Given that prices froze at their last peak and missed the traditional stage of&...

An audit by the European Commission was carried out from 1 to 12 March this year to assess the authorised control over the production and certification of milk and dairy products to be exported to the European Union, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection (SSUFSCP) reports. The agency has received a report on the audit results and proposals for further exports of Ukrainian products to the EU. 25 producers of milk and dairy products in&nbs...

Average milk prices still remain stable though it is April now. This was reported by the Analytical department of the Association of Milk Producers. In terms of milk grades, it looks like this: extra ― UAH 10.21 /kg, higher...

In 2020, the National Bank of Ukraine for the first time in its report spoke about the influence of the climate on the Ukrainian economy.  Already, Ukrainian agrarians faced a number of challenges. This is stated in the article analysts of the Association of Milk Producers Yana Linetska in the Milk and Farm Journal (No. 1 (62), February 2021). As a result of...

According to the data of the State Statistics Service on the results of the first two months of this year, 1 million 56.9 thousand tons of milk of all kinds were produced in Ukraine. This is 4.8% less than for the corresponding period last year. Reports the analytical department of the Association of Milk Producers. The general dynamics continues to pull down data from households. There for the analyzed period was produced b...

The increase in productivity of cows on industrial dairy farms is an indisputable fact, but there is a myth that Holstein can not live more than 2-3 lactations. The increase in productivity of cows on industrial dairy farms is an indisputable fact, but there is a myth that Holstein can not live more than 2−3 lactations...

Rostyslav Zinovskyi, a member of the Association of Milk Producers since 2011, owner of Shabska Ferma LLC, spoke about the current state of the dairy sector and the impact of imports on milk producers. This is stated in the story of the TV channel Ukraine «Imports that kill the economy.» Over the past three years, imports of dairy products to Ukraine have...