“Until now, 18 companies have been licensed to export dairy products to the Chinese market. But our Chinese colleagues added another nine companies to the list, having expanded it to 27 Ukrainian companies,” Ukrainian State Service on Food Safety and Consumer Protection Chairman Volodymyr Lapa said.
Ukraine is widely regarded as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’. Yet, the government, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, has been cautious to opening up the sale of agricultural farmland to foreign investors.
Nibulon Company has opened a new terminal for grain and oilseeds in the village of Bilenke near Zaporizhzhya, construction of which cost UAH 500 million. The Director General of Nibulon, Olexiy Vadatursky, reported that terminal had been built in 100 days, starting from March 10, while funds for the project were allocated by the European Investment Bank.
Qatar has lifted restrictions on imports of poultry from Ukraine, introduced in the middle of March due to outbreaks of bird flu, according to the website of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumers' Rights Protection.
The Group Allseeds started to implement the second stage of its global development in Yuzhny port, the construction of a multifunctional soybean crushing plant, with a daily production capacity of 5,000 tons. This plant will be unique in capacity among the European oil extraction plants.
In the first quarter of 2017, Ukraine’s exports of sugar amounted to 267.4 thousand tons worth $131.5 million, which is 8.6 times more compared to the same period in 2016, the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry reports.
Ukraine exported 1.2 MMT of wheat in April 2017 that is down 8% year-on-year (1.3 MMT in April 2016).
China has vetted Ukrainian frozen beef exports, Ukraine's State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection reported.
Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kutoviy has said that he is resigning from his ministerial position and asked lawmakers to support his decision.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts grain harvest in Ukraine in the 2017/2018 marketing year (MY, July-June) in the amount of 61.79 million tonnes, while exports could reach 38.31 million tonnes.