The cost of agricultural production in Ukraine in January-August 2018 increased by 14.3% compared to the same period in 2017. This was reported by the State Statistics Service, agropolit.com reported.
In the last summer month consumer prices for socially important food products (a list of 23 items) mainly increased. At the same time, the rate of this growth, in most cases, did not exceed one percent. This was reported by the press service of the Economic Discussion Club, agravery.com reported.
Over the past year milk in Ukraine has risen in price by 30%, or by 5 UAH. This was reported by the press service of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, agropolit.com reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, on September 1, 2018 there were 3 million 927.2 thousand heads of cattle in Ukraine, 4.3% less than a year earlier (4 million 103.4 thousand heads), agronews.ua reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, in the first eight months of 2018 in Ukraine, compared with the same period last year, the slaughter of livestock (in live weight) increased from 2 million 13.1 thousand tons to 2 million 14.6 thousand tons, agronews.ua reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, over the first eight months of 2018 in Ukraine, compared to the same period last year, milk production decreased by 2% - from 7 million 141,6 thousand tons to 6 million 998,4 thousand tons, agronews.ua reported.
Consumer prices in Ukraine in August 2018 compared with July have not changed, according to the State Statistics Service. Since the beginning of the year (by December 2017), prices in Ukraine have grown by 3.6%, 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.
In the first half of 2018 the largest volumes of exports to the EU countries were produced by the agro-industrial complex and food industry - 25.8% of the total volume of exports ($ 2 billion 526 million). This is reported by the site of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
In January-June, 2018 enterprises and organizations accounted for 206.9 billion UAH of capital investments from all sources of financing, which is 26 5% more than the volume of capital investments for the corresponding period of 2017, agronews.ua reported.