More than 400 Ukrainian market operators have already implemented the HACCP system

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 11:51

"The safety of Ukrainian products purchased by Ukrainian or foreign consumers remains vital for us. Therefore, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the State Procurement Service together with business representatives are constantly working to ensure that the HACCP system at Ukrainian enterprises is efficient and effective", Deputy Minister Olha Trofimtseva said.

Capital investment in the agro-industrial complex has grown by almost 10%

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 11:47

He noted that simultaneously in agriculture, capital investments for the first half of the year increased by only 9.2%, while last year the growth rate of capital investments in agriculture, hunting and related services amounted to 42, to the corresponding period of the previous year, 1%, and in 2016 - 73.8%.

A significant increase in capital investments was achieved in forestry and logging - by 66.4%. In the fishery, on the contrary, they decreased by 18.6%.

Milk has risen in price by 30-60% over the year

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 11:43

Most of all milk has added in the price in the Luhansk region - 60%, and there it costs 21.4 UAH/liter. It is less expensive in the Chernivtsi region - the cost there on average increased by 12% to 19 UAH/liter.

In the Khmelnytskyi region liter of milk is sold at 21.5 UAH - it added 44% to the price. In the Ternopil region the price is - 21 UAH/liter. In the Kharkiv region milk is sold at 23 UAH/liter, Zhitomir - 21.7 UAH/liter. In these regions milk has risen in price from 43% to 39%.

Ukraine increased poultry meat exports to almost 185 thousand tons

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 11:40

Actual issues of the poultry industry development and new perspectives were discussed during the 14th International Conference "Poultry breeding 2018" with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Viktor Sheremeta, representatives of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, profile associations, agricultural producers, exporters, international experts.

NAAS has developed a new instruction on the prevention and control of ASF

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 11:36

"This is a typical document that determines the order of preventive measures for the prevention of animal diseases, veterinary and sanitary measures in case of emergence of ASF and is mandatory for farms of all forms of ownership,"  Mykhailo Hladii noted.

Ukraine is negotiating with 30 countries on the export of domestic products

Submitted by bashun on Fri, 09/14/2018 - 13:23

Volodymyr Lapa noted that this year, due to joint efforts of the state and business, there was an expansion of the geography of export supplies of our state's products, the number of enterprises that had the right to export food products of animal origin increased.

In particular, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection for the circulation of Ukrainian producers initiated negotiations on the promotion of domestic products to foreign markets with 30 countries.

Number of cows and poultry decreased and increased respectively in Ukraine

Submitted by bashun on Fri, 09/14/2018 - 13:20

Including the number of cows in Ukraine for the year decreased by 3.4% from 2 million 100.3 thousand heads to 2 million 26.6 thousand heads.

In addition, the number of pigs in Ukraine decreased by 4.5% - from 6 million 779.0 thousand to 6 477.1 thousand.

Also in Ukraine, there are 1 566.8 sheep and goats, which is 4.4% less than a year ago.