Ukrainians consume milk and dairy products up to 50% of the physiological norm. Such statistics are due to the loss of buyers' confidence in industrial producers. Consumers cannot find a quality product on the shelves of grocery stores due to unscrupulous processing plants and incomprehensible marking, agroday.com.ua reported.
In Ukraine chicken is the most actively produced meat, the consumption of which is growing every year - the products of domestic poultry farms are in demand both on the domestic and international markets. Ukrainian pork almost completely provides the domestic market. Its export potential is limited due to the spread of ASF. Moreover, beef is the most expensive and laborious kind of meat. It occupied only 5.2% of the volume of the Ukrainian meat release in 2017, Pro-Consulting reported.
In June of this year consumer prices for milk, cheese and eggs in Ukraine, on average, increased by 20.4% compared with June last year, according to the website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, UNIAN reported. In particular, milk has risen in price by 16.4%, cheese - by 13.5%, eggs - by 53.8%.
In January-May, in Ukraine the production of milk and condensed cream (with fat content from 1% to 6%) increased by 1.6% compared to the same period last year - up to 195 thousand tons. This is evidenced by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, UNN reported.
The widespread information in the media that the population of the Rivne region consumes milk, the level of radioactive contamination of which exceeds the permissible standards, has not been confirmed, the Government portal reported.
Most of the concentrations in 2017 occurred in the market of acceptance, storage and primary processing of crops. This was reported by the head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the AMCU) Yurii Terentiev during the round table "The state of competition in agricultural markets", the correspondent of AgroPolit.com reported.
Experts of the Center of Expertise "TEST" conducted a study of 7 samples of pasteurized milk of domestic production, UNN reported with reference to the "TEST" study.
In June the commodity market in Ukraine was somewhat balanced. Prices for farm raw materials ceased to decline, and prices for milk were revised only at the beginning of the month, INFAGRO reported.
Such data was announced during the conference of the IFCN research network, which was held on June 11 in Ireland. Today the world produces about 876 million tons of milk per year, according to Infagro.