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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on December 27, 2017 approved the Export Strategy — the Road Map of Strategic Development of Trade for the period 2017−2021, which was developed by the Ministry of Economic Development with the participation of business and experts. «This is a clear plan of action as to how Ukraine moves from predominantly exporting raw materials to exporting science-intensive innovative products. The document...

The government of Belarus by its order has approved the national doctrine of food security of the country till 2030, informed on Tuesday the press-service of the government. In the document, in particular, it is planned to achieve the volume and structure of production of crop and livestock products that will allow to balance the su...

Ukrainian cheese producers are not expecting growths of cheese exports. Most of cheese makers count only on the domestic sales and hope that during the holidays their stocks will be successfully sold. Encouraged by the wave of the pre-holiday optimism, many of cheese producers have raised prices by 5%. The pices of «Rossiysky» and «Hollandsky» che...

The global trend of decrease in butter price has not changed. For this reason, importers are in no hurry to purchase butter of Ukraine’s produce, so prices are sinking. At the end of November it became a problem to sell 82% butter to the West more expensive than 4400 USD/t. To CIS countries it can still be sold at 470...

Since the beginning of the year till 3 December Russia has increased its imports of cheese by 15.8% compared to the same period in 2016, up to 25.4 thousand tons. It is reported by the Ministry of agriculture, based on the data of the Federal customs service of Russia. Import of other types of dairy products has also increased. Thus, Russia imported 16.7 thousand tons of butter (12.7 thousand tons in 2016), 46.1 thousand tons of milk powder...

Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry forecasts that the production of milk and dairy foods in Ukraine in 2017 will be about 10.1 million tonnes, which will be 2.9% down on 2016, according to Deputy Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry for European integration Olha Trofimtseva. «Our statistics say that milk production in Ukraine is declining. It will be falling this and next year compared to the previous year,» she said at the Dairy...

Effective Dec. 1, 2017, China is unilaterally lowering its cheese tariffs from 12 percent to 8 percent. The move will immediately boost U. S. export competitiveness in China and help U. S. suppliers take a larger role in meeting the nation's booming cheese demand. «We are very pleased with China's decision because it will help U. S. cheese exporters and manufacturers chip away the tariff disadvantage with other competitors,» said Tom V...

New Zeland — The new dairy sector strategy — «Dairy Tomorrow» — was launched this week and tackles head-on the big issues the sector is facing, says Dairy Environment Leader Group Chair Alister Body. «The process of developing this strategy meant we had to take a hard look at the challenges the sector is facing,» says Mr Body. «This meant strong...

Arla’s price for conventional milk will remain unchanged in December at 32.30 pence for the conventional manufacturing litre. Commenting on the reason behind the decision to hold the price for December, Johnnie Russell, Arla Foods amba board director, said: «Commodity market prices have continued to fall over recent weeks, in particular European yellow che...

Agro-industrial holding Astarta-Kiev and the European Investment Bank (EIB) today in Brussels signed a loan agreement for EUR 37 million. «These funds are provided under the InnovFin—EU Finance for Innovators program, and will be directed for further implementation of projects on infrastructure modernizat...