Ukraine has increased poultry meat exports by 40%

Submitted by bashun on Thu, 03/15/2018 - 14:16

In January-February, Ukraine exported 44.45 thousand tons of poultry meat and byproducts, which is 40.1% more than for the same period in 2017. This is reported by Interfax-Ukraine.

According to the SFS, in monetary terms, exports of these products increased 1.6 times to $ 68.87 million.

Purchase of poultry meat and byproducts increased by 26.2%, to 20.29 thousand tons, in monetary terms - by 36.4% and amounted to $ 8.76 million.

The sale of pork in January-February compared with the corresponding period of 2017 decreased by 3.1 times - to 0.37 thousand tons. This production was delivered for $ 0.87 million against $ 2.11 million in January-February 2017.

Import of pork in Ukraine over this period increased 2.2 times to 0.99 thousand tons. This type of meat was imported in the country for $ 1.59 million compared to $ 0.74 million in January-February 2017.

In 2017, Ukraine increased pork supplies to foreign markets 1.6 times to 4.92 thousand tons, while imports of this product doubled to 5.6 thousand tons.

In 2017 the export of poultry meat and byproducts increased by 13%, to 271.33 thousand tons. The import of these products increased by 42% compared to 2016 - up to 118.31 thousand tons.

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