Agrarian news
04.04.2016
Progress rate of crop sowing is lower than last year
Due to the cool spring, sowing rate of early grain crops and leguminous is behind last year's indicators nationwide.
more01.04.2016
Application of mineral fertilizers has been speeded up
In 2016, it is observed a significant increasing in fertilizers application under winter crops.
more25.03.2016
Production of condensed milk has dropped by 16%
By results of the two months of this year, production of condensed milk and semisweet cream has reduced by 16.3% compared with the similar indexes of the last year and amounted to 6.8 ths t.
more24.03.2016
Production of spreads has been declined up to 34%
In January - February this year, Ukraine has produced 5.04 ths t of spreads and milk-fat blends that is nearly 34% less than the similar indicators of the previous year.
more23.03.2016
Valuation of Ukrainian public agricultural companies has increased
Total capitalization of Ukrainian public agricultural holdings listed on the international financial markets was 2.86 bln USD in March 22, that is 14% more than at the beginning of the month (+ 352 mln USD).
more21.03.2016
Import of poultry meat and by-products has increased by almost 60%
Within two months of 2016, Ukraine has imported 11.58 ths t of poultry meat and its by-products that is by 58% more than similar indexes of the previous year.
more18.03.2016
Lamb is in deficit
Ukraine does not have enough lamb for export to the EU. According to the European Commission statistics, as of March 17, our country has not used the quota on any ton for duty-free export of lamb to the EU countries. In 2014 and 2015, this quota was not used as well. However, exports to the EU countries was realized: in 2014 Ukraine sold 149.8 kg of lamd valued 1 thousand USD, in 2015 – 255.6 kg on 1.2 thousand USD. For two months of 2016, Ukraine has not exported any lamb to the EU.
more18.03.2016
Prices on live hogs have increased rapidly
In the first half of March, prices for live hogs have increased in average on 7%. According to the UCAB monitoring, as of March 16, the cost of meat breeds hogs in Ukraine amounted to 28.00-29.50 UAH/kg, sometimes 30.00 UAH/kg. Prices for lard breed hogs have grown less significantly. In the middle of the month they were 25.00-26.50 UAH/kg.
more16.03.2016
Production of poultry meat has increased
According to the State Committee of Statistics, for two months of this year agricultural enterprises have produced 164.7 ths t of poultry meat in slaughter weight that is 5.1% higher than for the same period of 2015. Small householders have also increased their production of poultry meat on 2% - up to 35.5 th t. The main cause of such growing in poultry production is increased demand for this type of meat as the cheapest one.
more14.03.2016
Export of poultry has grew up almost in three times
For the first two months of 2016, Ukraine has exported poultry meat in the amount of 28.9 mln USD that is 29% more than for the same period of 2015. Three major countries-importers of Ukrainian poultry are the Netherlands, Iraq and Egypt (3.6 mln USD, 7.6 mln USD and 3.4 mln USD).
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