In Ukraine the production of pork meat decreased by 6.3% in May 2018. This was reported by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, according to agropolit.com.
Ukraine is on the first place in the ranking of 52 countries of the world with the most affordable poultry meat and one of the leaders at the lowest price for pork and beef. This is evidenced by the data of the British edition of The National Provisioner, which specializes in agrarian subjects, АgroРolit.com reported.
In the next 10 years the growth in production of all types of meat will slow down, and consumption of meat products, on the contrary, will grow. This was stated by an independent consultant on the development of meat business Yevhen Shatokhin, agrotimes.net reported.
Ukraine reduced its own production of pork, but almost doubled its imports. Ukrainian agrarians consider pig production to be unprofitable, since it takes several years to rear an animal, and profits barely cover expenses, agronews.ua reported.
The purchasing power of Ukrainians over the year fell by 11%. Such conclusions were made in the Association of suppliers of trade networks, where they found this indicator not in the usual for the Western world BigMacs, but in pork, agroday.com.ua reported.
Since the beginning of the year, sugar, butter and chicken have fallen in price in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data of the inflation barometer, as of May 7, reports UNN.
The European Commission reported average pork prices of 143.08 euro/100 kg as of the end of April, which is less by 1.82 euro/100 kg than four weeks earlier and 28 euro/100 kg lower than the same period last year. This is reported by the Council for the Development of Agriculture and Horticulture in the latest analysis of the market, according to pigua.info.
On April 24 of this year Ukraine banned the importation of animals that can be easily infected with ASF, products, raw materials, their reproductive material and feeds from Hungary. This was reported to UNN by the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
Experts of the Ukrainian Association of Trade Network Suppliers have investigated the rate of growth in the value of the "meat basket" of the Ukrainian over the year. Records on the increase in prices have salo and pork. This was reported by the chairman of the Association, Oleksii Doroshenko, on his Facebook page, UNN reported.
World pork production is expected to grow to 113.5 million tons in 2018, an increase of 2% over the previous year, according to the latest forecast of the USDA, pigua.info reported.