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Two farm households "Tatiana 2011" and "Goat yard" that are located in Kiev region received the status of a pedigree reproducer. "The Ministry of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine on February 7, 2017 by its order No. 45 - Order of the Ministry of agrarian policy "Of assigning the appropriate status to the subjects o...

In January 2017 the farms of all categories produced 577 thousand tons of milk, that is 0.2%, or 1 thousand tons less than during the same period in 2016. The share of industrial milk in the structure amounted to 37.2%, whereas in January 2015 it was at the level of 35.6% Production of industrial milk over the analyzed period increased by 4.2% and amounted to 2014.5 thousand tons. Only three regions showed the reduction of the gross volume of production: Kharkov (5.8 t...

In 2017, the production of milk in Ukraine will not exceed the volume of the last year and will amount to 10 300 thousand tons, which is 1% less than last year. It is reported by the press-service of the Economic discussion club.  In the current year they expect to maintain the export volumes of dairy products almost at the level of 2016 in the range...

LLC "First dairy cooperative" began its work in September. At the moment it includes 27 farms that sell 8 500 tons per month, 70% of milk is of extra grade. "Today, "First dairy cooperative" has two activities — it unites small farms for selling milk as a trader and negotiates with milk processors on behalf of the households-members o...

Due to the period of season changing and increasing of milk production, milk prices have started to fall. Previous week all grades have lost about 0.04 UAH. Analytical department of Association of milk producers announces this information. January data of milk production in Ukraine shows that whole amount of milk has shortened by 0.2% to 578 ths. tons....

The Executive Director of the Federation of organic movement of Ukraine Andrey Konyashin told about main trends in organic production. "Holdings are interested in organic production with the purpose of export of products abroad. And we talk about organic raw material that is generally cereals, pulses and oilseeds. This does not...

The representative of the Chief Department for Food of the Ministry of agriculture and food of Belarus Elena Matsko said at the scientific-practical seminar "Innovative technologies and equipment for the dairy industry" that in eight years the volume of milk of extra class that is used by dairy enterprises, increased by 42.9%. "In 2016, 44.8% of the total quantity of milk supplied to dairy companies is sold as extra grade milk. This figure was only 1.9% in 2008 and 13.3% in 2010," — said Elena Matsko. Als...

Approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the order of allocation of subsidies to farmers is a compensatory mechanism which provides compensations, particularly to those farmers who are engaged in all types of livestock breeding, vegetable and fruit growing and so on. This was announced by deputy of Ukraine Nikolay Kucher, reports the press service of the deputy. ''This is a great victory, because producers in these industri...

Ukrainian producers exported 109.3 thousand tons of dairy products in 2016, which is 9% less than in 2015. As reported by the Analytical Department of the Council for food exports (UFEB), the main exports last year was milk and condensed cream (48%), butter (11%) and cheese (7%). Export of condensed milk and cream in 2016 reduced compared to 2015 by 12% to 51.9 thousand tons. Most of these products were supplied abroad by "Vinnitsa dairy plant "Roshen" (14% of t...

According to the State fiscal service, in January 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, there is an increase of exports of agricultural products by 53.6% to 1.4 billion USD and reducing of imports by 16% to 0,3 billion USD. Import of live animals (cattle) is 85% less than for the same period last year. The largest country-importer of frozen cattle meat is Lithuania, with a share of 60%. In general import in this category...