On the eve of Easter consumption of fresh dairy products in many regions of Ukraine has decreased. At the same time it is unrealistic to sell its surplus for export, as it happens in other categories of dairy products. – INFAGRO
First of all let me provide some information about the sources of data on the prices and specifics of the recalculation: prices for Ukraine, Belarus and Russia are the data of large agricultural enterprises; Poland and Lithuania – prices according to Eurostat. All the price trends are represented in terms of European fat and protein […]
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is launching a new advisory program to modernize Ukraine’s dairy industry, part of broader efforts to spur economic growth across the country.
Ukrainian producers have exported 2.3 thousand tonnes of butter while quota was set at 1.9 thousand tonnes. This is 26% of European external purchases. – INFAGRO
The Ukrainian cheese-makers have not yet fully evaluated the pre-Christmas sales, but it looks like they had expected a better result. – INFAGRO
Ukrainian cheese producers are not expecting growths of cheese exports. Most of cheese makers count only on the domestic sales and hope that during the holidays their stocks will be successfully sold. – INFAGRO
Before the talk about Ukrainian dairy co-operatives, I would like to briefly recall what the world dairy co-operation looks like. 75% of the world’s dairy industry constitutes co-operatives, and these co-operatives are successful. In New Zealand there is a powerful co-operative Fonterra, in Europe Arla and FrieslandCampina can be taken as examples, in the USA […]
It seems that Ukrainian dairy is already recovering from the long crisis that they endured in 2014-2016. Of course, there is still a lot of unresolved problems, but comparing the current situation with last year circumstances, there is some reason for optimism.
It seems that this year the season of active casein production will last longer than usual. – INFAGRO
Despite quite weak sales in the first half of the summer, producers of fresh dairy products are actively involved in the “raw milk race” raising the purchase price of milk. – INFAGRO
