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Among the reasons for the devaluation of the hryvnia the representative of the National bank of Ukraine calls «a seasonal decline in business activity in the agricultural sector». This was reported by BusinessCensor with the reference to Deputy head of the NBU Oleg Churiy. Such factors as seasonal slowdown in business activity, mainly in the agricult...

The Ukrainian state fund, as of January 1, 2017, transferred 14.8 million UAH of financial support for farmers that is 93.5% of the planned amount. This was reported about by the Ministry of agrarian policy and food. It is noted that the state support for farms is carried out in accordance with the budget programs...

The downward trend of milk production in Ukraine in 2017 will not be stopped. This opinion was expressed by Director of the analytical agency "INFAGRO" Vasiliy Vintonyak. At the same time, the expert notes, a significant drop is expected in households. "Far...

The beginning of 2017 for Ukainian milk producers started with the continuation of the positive price trend odserved last year. Purchase prises are following their growing trend. Milk prices are growing due to a low milk supply because of seasonal reduction and trade of dairy products oin the foreign market. Thus, due to the info of the State Fiscal Service, Ukraine has exp...

China is interested in opening of the agricultural commodities exchange in Ukraine, declared top-managers of the Jilin International Commodities Exchange (JICE) during meeting with the President of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation (UAC), Leonid Kozachenko. The JICE leaders proposed to found a stock exchange market in Ukraine, to sell their products and hedge any price risks for both large-scale and medium companies. Thus, agricultural producers will be...

As production of raw milk is shrinking, there is no reason to expect that dairy production will have grown in 2017. However, the total volume of milk processed in 2016 has not changed much in comparison with that of 2015, when the decrease was very rapid. There is even some increase in production of some dairy prod...

Due to both seasonality and low demand prices on the external markets production of casein has almost ceased in Ukraine. However, a number of dairy market operators still have a certain amount of the product in store. They still hope for a casein price increase. In the meantime, tra...

The audit has been held in Kalanchak butter factory, during which 98 violations of legal acts on labor protection were revealed and 3 officials were brought to administrative responsibility. The Director of the enterprise was issued the relevant act and regulations, time limits for elimination of violations are set. 35% of the violations at the factory were eliminated immediately befor...

On 29 December 2016 the Supreme administrative court of Finland made a decision on the case of basic prices for milk in Finland in 2010-2012. It was agreed that Valio had used its dominant market position to lower the prices for the purchase of raw milk, noted in the report of the Finnish press service of the company. The court confirmed the fine of € 70 million. Vesa Kaunisto, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Valio, says that this decision will not affect the price paid for raw milk to farmers. The decision means that the competit...

The experts of the dairy industry of India during the fifth regional seminar IFCN discussed which development strategies of the dairy industry suit better for different regions of the country. Dairy market in India: opinions differ — will India be an importer or an exporter? In any case, the rules of the game have changed. And to move on, o...