As it was expected, a wave of strengthening procurement prices for milk has been since early August in Ukraine. Compared to July, raw milk prices raised by 25 kopecks, INFAGRO reported.
In autumn prices for dairy products will start to grow. Nevertheless, this growth will be quite modest compared to previous years, Oleksii Doroshenko, head of the Association of Trade Network Suppliers, said.
This year the Odesa region shows grandiose indicators on the production of agricultural products. This is reported by the main department of statistics in the Odesa region, agronews.ua reported.
The Ukrainian milk index (UMI), which shows the conditional profitability of milk production by professional farms, for the first time since the beginning of the year demonstrated growth in July. This was reported by the economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Andrii Yarmak on his page on Facebook, agroportal.ua reported.
In Ukraine the share of milk is reduced, which is given for processing by the population. This was written on Facebook by Maksym Fasteev, an analyst of the dairy market, agroday.com.ua reported.
The most expensive dairy products are sold in the Luhansk region. The cheapest are sold in Ternopil. "According to official statistics for June, the most expensive milk basket was sold in the Luhansk region – for 370 UAH. The cheapest was sold in the Ternopil region – for 316.9 UAH. A kilogram of sour cream, cottage cheese, butter and a liter of milk entered the basket." - the director of the association of suppliers of trade networks Olekesii Doroshenko noted on his Facebook.
Owning to Iryna Palamar’s active efforts, the head of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association (the USBA), the decision on new milk quality requirements, according to which peasant milk of the second grade would be prohibited, was postponed, the USBA press service reported.
About a month ago the world media space stirred the news that the norms of radioactive contamination of the Ukrainian milk were exceeded by 5 times in some regions. Such information was published on June 8, 2018 by the British edition of The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/milk-radioactive-cow-ukraine-healthy-dairy-safe-chernobyl-a8388576.html). In particular, the article was quickly spread by other media, in which it was said that the aforementioned results were obtained due to the research of the University of Exeter and the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology, which allegedly took cow milk from private farms in the Rivne region for analysis.
According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine over the first half of the year, the production of milk in the country decreased by 1.8% compared to the same period of last year, according to Infagro.