February 27, 2012

An average Ukrainian's milk consumption each year is about 205 kilogrammes and will increase by five kilogrammes this year as predicted by experts.

Domestic dairy industry is ready to increase the supply of these products to the domestic market. So we should also expect an increasing activity of meat processing plants. This was started by Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk during a briefing at the Cabinet

"According to forecasts of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food this year for the production of dairy products would be recycled 4.7 million tonnes of milk. Last year, with processed 4.6 million tonnes of milk, 21% was used for the production of milk for export" - said Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.

Also official noted that 2011 year there was an increase of meat production. Due to this an import of meat products decreased by 40%.