According to the State Statistics Service, on September 1, 2018 there were 3 million 927.2 thousand heads of cattle in Ukraine, 4.3% less than a year earlier (4 million 103.4 thousand heads), agronews.ua reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, in the first eight months of 2018 in Ukraine, compared with the same period last year, the slaughter of livestock (in live weight) increased from 2 million 13.1 thousand tons to 2 million 14.6 thousand tons, agronews.ua reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, over the first eight months of 2018 in Ukraine, compared to the same period last year, milk production decreased by 2% - from 7 million 141,6 thousand tons to 6 million 998,4 thousand tons, agronews.ua reported.
Ukraine is negotiating on the promotion of domestic products to foreign markets with 30 countries. This was announced by the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection Volodymyr Lapa at the XIV International Conference "Poultry-breeding-2018", which takes place in the city of Truskavets, Lviv region, the press service of the agency reported, agropolit.com informed.
According to the Food and Veterinary Service of Latvia, 15 new cases of African swine fever were detected in the population of wild boars last week. In general, since the beginning of the year, the ASF has already been identified among 720 boars in more than 200 districts of the country and in one city. This is reported by the Latvian portal LSM.lv, UNN informed.
In early January 2015 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the Order "On the Strategy of Sustainable Development "Ukraine-2020 ". Among 17 directions and 62 planned reforms, which should restore the development of Ukraine, one of the first steps in the list is the reform of agriculture. The strategy was based on a coalition agreement, which was signed in 2014 between five political forces (BPP, Batkivshchyna, Narodnyi front, Radical Party and Samopomich). This five formed the acting coalition, agropolit.com reported.
The price of nitrate fertilizer rose to 10800 UAH per ton or 10500 UAH per ton from the plant. Analysts of the online commodity exchange Kyiv Mercantile Exchange inform about the rise in price of mineral fertilizers.
According to the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, 4 cases of African swine fever were recorded from 06.09.2018 to 10.09.2018 in Ukraine.
Last week the Polish Sejm Commission supported a government bill to simplify the sale of pork from restricted areas due to the emergence of African swine fever. The project was sent to the second reading, pigua.info reported.
Consumer prices in Ukraine in August 2018 compared with July have not changed, according to the State Statistics Service. Since the beginning of the year (by December 2017), prices in Ukraine have grown by 3.6%, agronews.ua reported.