Ukraine fully used 10 duty-free export quotas in the EU for January-June 2018. This is reported by the deputy director of the NSC "Institute of Agrarian Economics", corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences Mykola Puhachov, agronews.ua reported.
The volume of meat production in Ukraine in January-June of 2018 amounted to 1.78 million tons (in live weight), which is 0.3% less than in the same period last year, the State Statistics Service reported according to UNIAN.
The main set of social products continues to add to the price. As of July 2018, the food basket, which contains kilograms of various vegetables and meat, sugar, flour, bread, pasta, cereals, butter and dairy products, cost Ukrainians an average of 1021 UAH. This is 19% more than in July last year, experts of the Economic Discussion Club have calculated, agroday.com.ua reported.
First Vice-President of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences Mykhailo Hladii instructed the heads of the research farms of the NASA network to strengthen veterinary and sanitary measures to protect animals from African swine fever (ASF). This is reported by the press service of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, pigua.info reported.
This year the Odesa region shows grandiose indicators on the production of agricultural products. This is reported by the main department of statistics in the Odesa region, agronews.ua reported.
Exports of meat products in the first half of this year increased against January-June 2017 from $ 265 million to $ 304 million - more than 14%. This was reported by the deputy director of the National Scientific Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics" Mykola Puhachov, Ukrinform reported.
The Danish government finally approved the construction of a 68-kilometer fence along the border with Germany, Deutsche Welle reported accroding to pigua.info.
The Ukrainian milk index (UMI), which shows the conditional profitability of milk production by professional farms, for the first time since the beginning of the year demonstrated growth in July. This was reported by the economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Andrii Yarmak on his page on Facebook, agroportal.ua reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, on August 1, 2018 in Ukraine there were 3 million 972.3 thousand heads of cattle that is 4.3% higher than a year earlier (4 million 149.1 thousand heads), agronews.ua reported.