More than 3 thousand people who have already applied for a grant to breed young cattle will get money very soon. Such financial support for the owners of subsidiary farms was the result of the fruitful work of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association, together with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the Government.
The increase in the export tax on livestock to 20%, which is now initiated by people's deputies, is a complete absurdity. This will not be able to save the cattle-breeding industry of Ukraine from a reduction in the number of livestock. But, on the contrary, it is necessary to develop domestic meat-processing production and to arrange the export of beef processing products, the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association is sure of this.
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.
Ukrainians consume only 45-60% of the required norm of dairy, meat and fish products. This was stated in an interview with the publication "Accents" by the vice president of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences Mykhailo Hladii, AgroRolit.com. reports.
The number of cattle in Ukraine as of May 1, 2018 was 3.94 million, which is 4.4% less than on the same date in 2017. This is reported by the State Statistics Service according to landlord.ua.
To avoid extraneous metal objects that get into the feed of cattle in the feed mixer and can damage animals, Dutch farmers use ordinary magnets, writes the website Сowsignals.com, according to kurkul.com.
The strategic goal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine for the coming years is to stabilize and increase production of livestock products, in particular the state can increase the number of dairy cows to 2.76 million until 2025. This opinion was expressed by the president of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine Yaroslav Hadzalo during the meeting on innovative development of animal husbandry in market conditions, which was held in Vinnytsia region, the press service of the Academy reports.
On May 21, an official meeting of the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Ukraine, Alisher Abdualiyev, with the head of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association Iryna Palamar was held, Ukrinform reported.
Scientists of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences developed and handed over to the state registration the first domestic diagnostic test systems for detecting DNA of dangerous animal diseases. This was stated by the President of the National Academy of Sciences Yaroslav Hadzalo in his interview to "Pravda narodu", agronews.ua reported.
In the Kharkiv region the production of meat and milk has decreased. This was reported by Depo.Kharkiv according to the State Statistical Office in the Kharkiv region.