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The European Commission has approved 13 programmes in 11 Member States to promote milk and milk products in the European Union. The total budget of the programmes, running for a period of three years, is € 35.8 million of which the EU contributes € 17.9 million. This was one of a set of measures proposed by the Commission in July 2009 to address the difficult market situation faced by the dairy sector (see IP/09/1172 ). The Commission committed itself to adopt an additional round of dairy product promotion programmes on the internal market.

The government of Ukraine realized special anti-crisis measures for stabilization of the situation in the agro industrial complex of the country, which allowed to provide the positive rates of growth of the agricultural production in 2009, declared Bogdan Danilishyn, the Minister of Economics of Ukraine.

Ukraine harvested 46 million metric tons of grain in clean weight in 2009, which is 14% lower than in 2008, the state statistics committee reported Monday.

Wheat fell, marking the biggest weekly loss in 13 months, on concern that increased global production will boost inventories and curb demand for exports from the U.S., the world’s biggest shipper.