Ukraine

The development of the organic sector of Ukraine made a positive step forward yesterday, when the Committee on Agrarian Policy recommended the Verkhovna Rada to support the draft law in the first reading. It is not yet clear whether currently the adoption of the draft law is merely a formality, or it can still be rejected by the Verkhovna Rada.

A meeting was held today at which the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovoy, together with the management of the state enterprise Ukrspirt, discussed the calculation of the cost of alcohol of a state enterprise in order to reduce it at the request of market participants. "Considering the planned increase in excise, and an additional increase in the cost of other pricing elements, I consider it advisable to recommend abolishing the additional price increase, since this may adversely affect the vodka industry.

The European Commission made a decision to establish reciprocal regional restrictions between Ukraine and the European Union when it comes to trading in poultry land, which recorded outbreaks of acute viral disease - avian influenza. You can learn more about this decision in the Official Journal of the EU. Recall that the import of Ukrainian poultry and eggs was stopped by the EU in December last year, but then, on January 30, exports resumed, affecting products from territories where the flu was not seen.

Experts named the whole range of reasons why the main products are becoming more expensive with each week. The first month of the year did not keep up the centuries-old grocery trends in Ukraine: as a rule, later on the pre-New Year tariff increases, food is somewhat cheaper, but in early 2017 the majority of socially important goods continued to rise.

In January 2017, the specialized sea port and the state enterprise Olbia (formerly the Specialized Sea Port Oktyabrsk, Mykolaiv region) increased cargo handling by 1.9 times compared to the same period last year, up to 554 thousand tons, the GP said Association of Ukrainian seaports from February 10.

According to the Department of Public Relations of Derzhprodpozhivsluzhby, since the legislation of Ukraine is only beginning to adapt in the field of sanitary and phytosanitary measures in accordance with the requirements of the European Union, work is underway to reform the system of state control and monitoring of food safety.

According to the statement of the head of the mission of Ukraine in the European Union, Ambassador Nikolay Tochitsky, made on February 8, at the end of April 2017, the European Parliament will accept the proposal of the European Commission to increase trade preferences for Ukraine. According to him, today the proposal for additional preferential customs duties is under consideration in the European Parliament, and this issue should be considered at the meeting of the relevant committee, and then the European deputies will discuss it in plenary session.

Ukrainian farmers planted winter crops for the 2017 harvest in an area of ​​7.173 million hectares. As of February 9, the sprouts of winter crops appeared on 6.834 million hectares, or 95.3% of the acreage, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. According to the report, as of the reporting date, 81.7% of the sprouted zones were in good and satisfactory condition (5,581 million hectares), and 18.3% in poor and sparse (1,253 million hectares).

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as of February 14, in 2016, the foreign trade deficit in Ukraine increased to 2.886 billion dollars, against the trade surplus, which amounted to 610.7 million US dollars in the previous year. In particular, last year the export of goods from Ukraine amounted to 36.

February 15, the international conference "Soybean and its products: efficient production, rational use" began in Kiev. The event was organized by APK-Inform in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Soy Producers and Processors, as well as the Danube Soya International Association.

Kherson agronomists in non-irrigated areas like drought-resistant flax curls. Igor Bragininets from the Alfa-Agro farm, which is located in the Kherson region, told about this. “Flax receives that water, to which other cultures do not reach,” commented Igor Bragininets. “Last year there were 24 days of dry winds, as a result of which the ground cracked.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine will further increase the acreage of soybeans, as well as create modern agricultural technologies for industry, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovoy on February 15 during his speech at the international conference "Soybeans and its products: efficient production, rational use. "

In the Chernigov region in the LLC "Rassvet" (Bobrovitsa, Bobrovitsky district, Chernihiv region) on February 14, the death of three pigs was recorded. This is the press service of Derzhprodpozhivsluzhby. In the study of selected biomaterial samples at the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise (

In the period from September to January 2016-2017, Ukraine broke a record in exports of soybeans - their deliveries reached 1.55 million tons, an increase of 41% compared with the same period last season, and 19% compared with previous results in September -January 2014-2015, said APK-Inform analyst Yulia Ivanitskaya on February 15 during her report at the international conference "Soybean and its products: efficient production, rational use."

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the export of products of the land branch in 2016 amounted to $ 15.2 billion, which is $ 4 billion more than in 2015. The share of agricultural products in total state exports was 42%. A greater rise in exports was observed in the external supply of fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin - a 20% increase compared with the previous period.

After the procedure was discontinued due to the reorganization of the state registration system of planting material, certification of seeds in Ukraine will begin again by early March. This was stated by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Kutovoy. "These 2 weeks are a transitional stage ... There was tension on the part of seed companies and farmers associated with this transition, but I believe that we are already removing it," he said.

In 2016, Ukrainian farmers collected record volumes of sunflower seeds - 13.6 million tons, an increase of 21.7% compared with 2015, the press service of the Ukroliyaprom association said on February 16. According to the report, the total production of all oilseeds exceeded 19 million tons.

Due to a sharp decrease in fish catch in Ukraine, the cost of seafood has increased. The head of the Association of Fishermen of Ukraine, Alexander Chistyakov, spoke about this. "In 2015, Ukraine caught in inland waters, and also raised 88500 tons of aquatic living resources, of which 74,000 were fish.

According to updated statistics, in January-September 2016-2017, Ukraine exported 140 thousand tons of sunflower seeds, which was a record figure for the reporting period in the last 6 seasons. At the same time, Ukraine supplied about 80% of volumes to 28 EU countries, in particular, to the Netherlands, France and Spain.

The State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise of Kiev investigated selected biomaterial samples of a dead wild boar taken at the captive farm of the Rybnoye state of emergency state of emergency "Black Forest" located in Tysmenytsky district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.