Over 5 months of this year Ukraine has exported 50.1 thousand tons of poultry meat to the EU, UNN reported referring to the statistical report of the European Commission.
On July 16, 2018 in Ukraine the delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan began an audit of the state control system on exporting poultry meat and products from it, the website of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection reported.
By the end of the year pork may rise in price by 7%, equaling the price of beef. However, there are more affordable types of meat - chicken. This opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the Association of Trade Network Suppliers Oleksii Doroshenko in the comment for UNN.
The domestic poultry industry has significantly increased the rate of growth over the past two decades. This was reported by the head of the department of financial and credit and tax policy of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics", Ph.D. Leonid Tulush, kurkul.com informed.
In May 2018 poultry meat exports increased by 17.9% ($ 6.7 million) to $ 44.1 million, while imports increased by 40.6% ($ 1.2) to almost $ 4 million, according to kurkul.com.
Ukraine and China signed a Memorandum on cooperation and promotion of mutual trade of poultry meat. This is reported by the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection, according to agropolit.com.
Ukraine appeared to be on the first place in the ranking of countries with the most affordable poultry meat, UNN reported with reference to"The National Provisioner".
In January-May of this year Ukraine exported 29.7 thousand tons of poultry meat to the European Union, UNN reports referring to the statistical report of the European Commission.
The State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection has agreed with the competent authority of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region veterinary certificate for the export of poultry products. This was reported by the press service of the department.