Over five months the purchasing ability of Ukrainians has decreased for most products subject to state monitoring. This was written by the head of the Association of suppliers of trade networks, Oleksii Doroshenko, on his Facebook page, UNN reported.

A set of 23 socially important goods, including vegetables, bread, pasta, milk, meat, sugar, eggs and cereals, grew by 24% over the year - from 825 UAH in May 2017 to 1021 UAH in May of this year. This is evidenced by the study of analysts of the Economic Discussion Club, agroday.com.ua reported.

The creation and implementation of a modern food safety monitoring system based on risk assessment in the cycle of production and marketing of dairy products in Ukraine is an important stage for the development of the dairy industry and livestock in general. The results of the cooperation, the main tasks and challenges in the implementation of the project were discussed during the meeting of the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Olena Kovaleva with experts of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Christian Robin and Barbara Eggin, the Milk Safety Project (SAFOSO), representatives of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

The State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection started working under the new rules for checking food quality, which should help get rid of endless bribes.

For business, there is nothing more terrible than a check by the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and various inspectors. Many entrepreneurs simply include in the constant costs of bribes. This is stated in the plot of the economic weekly First Column, according to biz.nv.ua.

According to the State Statistics Service in the first quarter of this year, Ukrainian agrarians exported to foreign markets products worth $ 4.3 billion. This amount corresponds to 38% of the total exports of Ukraine in January-March 2018, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

As of the beginning of the year the level of consumer inflation was 4.4% according to segodnya.ua.

In Poland a number of social food products are more expensive than in Ukraine, UNN reported.

Over a month prices for a number of social food products have increased in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data of the State Statistics, UNN reported.

Ukrainians have reduced food consumption by 15%, which contain palm oil, agropolit.com reported.

The main groups of goods of Ukrainian exports, according to the results of 2017, were products of agro-industrial complex and food industry - 37.6%, metallurgical complex - 26.8%, machine building - 11.4%, mineral products - 9%, chemical industry - 5.1 %, wood and paper pulp - 4.2%, various industrial goods - 3.2%, light industry products - 2.7%. This is reported by the website of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, agropolit.com reported.