Japan confirmed the outbreak of classical swine fever (CSF) for the first time in 26 years, pigua.info reported.

The program of state support of farmers, which was launched this year, should be continued for subsequent years. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groisman during the Hour of questions to the government in parliament, agronews.ua reported.

Over the year the Ukrainian sandwich with salo went up by 42%. This was announced by the Director of the Association of Trade Network Suppliers Oleksii Doroshenko on his Facebook page, kurkul.com reported.

The Minister of Agriculture of Japan reported that swine flu was registered in the country for the first time in 26 years. This flu differs from the African swine fever. This is reported by Reuters, according to kurkul.com.

Over the eight months of 2018 professional milk producers received an average of 13.1% less profit than during the same period in 2017 and 7% less than the average for the same period in 2012-2017. This was reported by the economist of the FAO investment center Andrii Yarmak, the press service of FAO reported according to agropolit.com.

Three cases of African swine fever have been recorded in the Kyiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions over the past week. This was reported by the press service of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, agronews.ua reported.

Ukraine exported 214.5 thousand tons of poultry meat worth $ 333.67 million for January-August 2018, according to Ukrinform data, agronews.ua reported.

The establishment of uniform rules for state control over the identification and registration of animals in livestock-raising farms, as well as domestic animals, will resolve a number of issues, among which the spread of ASF. This was said by the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection Volodymyr Lapa on Ekolohichna pravda.

In Kherson, because of the outbreak of the African swine fever, it was decided to ban the trade of meat and meat products in the market towns of Khersonskyi komunalnyi rynok CE and the Komunalnyi rynok cooperative. This is reported by pik.ua.

Any restrictions on the import of products stimulate their own production. This was told to UNN by MP, member of the Tax Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Mykhailo Holovko, commenting on the record volume of imports of palm oil to Ukraine.