June 11, 2013

The Ukrainian Association of Poultry Farmers has increased its forecast for chicken exports by 10,000-20,000 tonnes or 8% to 17% to 140,000 tonnes by the end of 2013.

The association's Chairman Oleksandr Bakumenko announced this during a web conference on the AgroNews portal.

According to him, the increase of chicken exports this year will be due primarily to entry into the European market.

"We are increasing our exports annually. If we exported 50,000 tonnes of chicken meat in 2011 and 80,000 tonnes in 2012, then we plan to increase exports to 140,000 tonnes in 2013," he said.

Bakumenko said that the current increase in production of chicken meat allows poultry farms primarily to meet the demand on the domestic market and export the remainder.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Ukrainian Association of Poultry Farmers previously predicted export of 120,000-130,000 tonnes of chicken in 2013.

Out of this quantity, it forecast that 100,000 tonnes would be exported to member countries of the Customs Union of the Common Economic Area (Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan) and 20,000-30,000 tonnes to the EU.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food forecast that chicken production would increase by 0.134 million tonnes or 12.57% to 1.2 million tonnes in 2013.