According to the State Statistics Service in January-July, 2018 Ukraine exported 748 million eggs for 40 million US dollars, which is 43% more than in the same period last year. In the first half of 2017 1.1 billion units were exported for 27.9 million US dollars, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.
The top three leaders in terms of the population of cattle were Vinnytsia (304,000 heads), Poltava (264,500 heads) and Lviv (249,100 heads). This was reported in the State Statistics Committee, agronews.ua reported.
Over the past year the prices for carrots - by 137% and for bacon - 40% rose the most. This was announced by the Director of the Ukrainian Association of Trade Network Suppliers Oleksii Doroshenko on his Facebook page, Ukrainian News reported.
The volume of meat production in Ukraine in January-June of 2018 amounted to 1.78 million tons (in live weight), which is 0.3% less than in the same period last year, the State Statistics Service reported according to UNIAN.
The main set of social products continues to add to the price. As of July 2018, the food basket, which contains kilograms of various vegetables and meat, sugar, flour, bread, pasta, cereals, butter and dairy products, cost Ukrainians an average of 1021 UAH. This is 19% more than in July last year, experts of the Economic Discussion Club have calculated, agroday.com.ua reported.
Exports of meat products in the first half of this year increased against January-June 2017 from $ 265 million to $ 304 million - more than 14%. This was reported by the deputy director of the National Scientific Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics" Mykola Puhachov, Ukrinform reported.
In January-July of 2018 Ukraine exported 54.216 thousand tons of eggs worth $ 47.580 million, according to customs statistics of the State Fiscal Service, agronews.ua reported.
In January-July, 2018 Ukraine exported 184,646 tons of poultry meat worth $ 289.96 million, according to the customs statistics of the State Fiscal Service, agravery.com 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 cost of agricultural production in Ukraine fell by 0.7% in June compared with the same indicator in 2017. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, agronews.ua reported.