Expert’s opinion

LIRA ZHOLAMANOVA, Purchasing Director Danone: on the long-term contracting of milk purchase for dairy processing

In Ukraine Danone has been working for 20 years, of which 11 it has been engaged in local manufacturing of dairy products. More than 80% of milk suppliers have been cooperating with Danone for more than five years. In cooperation with their suppliers Danone constantly gives priority to high quality of the purchased milk. That […]

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LYUDMYLA KRYVOKHAT’KO, Deputy Director Infagro, Analyst: How the prospects of the global dairy market look like at the beginning of the year

Although after a fairly long lull in the world dairy market some recovery can be observed, it is still too early to talk about fundamental changes. In Oceania, where production is still seasonally active now, prices have strengthened. But this happened not because of improvement of the market situation, but because of the expected worse […]

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ANDRIY POPOV, Lead Technologist on Milk Production, Ukrainian Agrarian Holding: on the prospects of providing dairy processors with quality milk

Providing dairy processors with sufficient volume of quality raw milk is an important issue to all dairy market operators, both producers and processors of milk. In  recent years in dairy farming there has been a persistent trend of increasing cows’ productivity and growth in the number of livestock on farms demonstrating stable profitability of milk […]

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VASYL VINTONYAK, Director Infagro: Milk produced in private households will be banned, but not quite and not immediately

Since last September, officials and experts have been speaking a lot about the prohibition of industrial use of second-grade milk starting the New Year, January 1, 2018. And the reason was not the low-quality of the milk which is sometimes even dangerous, but because some time ago somebody introduced this requirement to the Association Agreement […]

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ROLAND SOSSNA, Editor International Dairy Magazine: Prices will decrease. But there are no early signs of yet another catastrophe

Another year is about to end.  2017 was, all in all, a much better dairy year than 2016, for sure. Product prices increased as did milk prices and, hopefully, the margins of the dairy businesses have improved as well. Having been a visitor to the various trade shows addressing the dairy industry, IDM witnessed considerable […]

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Dr. JAN MAARTEN VRIJ: Why it is important for Ukrainian dairy to join the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam

The Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam is a joint declaration signed by IDF and FAO on 19 October 2016 in Rotterdam. The Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam describes the crucial role dairy plays in the world in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The Declaration has already been signed by 20 IDF National […]

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ROBERT SCHORSIJ, Managing Director Greenmark Dairy Ingredients: EU milk: the price of freedom. How the EU dairy industry faired after the abolition of the milk quota

On the first of April 2015, EU abolished the Milk Quota that had been in place for 30 years, since 1984. The reason why Milk Quota were implemented for every member state of the EU was to manage the yearly recurring misbalances between Supply & Demand. The milk quota system has beensuccessful in terms of […]

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VASYL VINTONYAK, Director Infagro Analytical Agency: high purchase price of milk in Ukraine is set only due to its low supply in the market, as well as active exports of butter and cheese product

In September, the most popular topic discussed in dairy circles of Ukraine was the rise in milk prices. In general, over the past three months high-quality raw milk price has grown by 18%. Unfortunately, this growth was not due to the growth of the purchasing power of the domestic consumer. Sales of most dairy products […]

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