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External trade as controller of domestic market

02.02.2016 17:18:00

It is well-known that price on the market forms in the trade-off point of demand and supply. While in previous years pig producers in Ukraine were oriented exclusively for domestic consumers, but the last year the external demand was compensated by weaker appetites of Ukrainians. At the beginning of 2016 the situation has changed. The main consumer of Ukrainian pork — Russia — has abandoned goods and promotion of trading relations with EU and Canada, who are pork net exporters, bothers market players. You can read about Ukrainian pork trade in 2015 and prospects for current year in our research below.

African swine fever in Ukraine in 2014-2015: situation, dangers and challenges

30.12.2015 14:31:00

Over the past year 38 ASF-troubled places were found in Ukraine. Backyard farms are prevalent in number of outbreaks (6 — wild boars, 31 — backyard animals). During 2015 several oblasts reported about cases of ASF: Chernigiv — 13 cases, Sumy and Kyiv — 6 cases, Mykolaiv — 4 cases, Rivne, Odesa, and Poltava — 2 cases, Zhytomyr and Cherkasy — 1 case each. The quarantine measures are still being kept in 14 ASF-unfortunate points in Kyiv, Chernigiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv and Cherkasy oblasts.

What does this year prepare for us?

02.02.2015 16:12:00

Oleksandra Bondarska, Analytical Department of APPU

At the situation created on the pork market at the beginning of the year it is difficult to evade panic. Devaluation of hryvhia, lightning-like growing price on raw materials, gasoline, veterinary drugs… For how long does the black streak last?

Is this a crisis?

21.05.2014 14:20:18

«Crimean issue can reformat our pork market»

Dmitro Rozhko, director, «Priluky-GarantBud» Ltd., Chernigov region

About some reasons to slaughter on higher weights

13.03.2014 15:52:59

André van Lankveld, Swine Technical Manager, BIOMIN Gmbh (Austria)

The higher slaughter weights will influence: meat quality: More backfat depth (sow worse meat percentage), bigger lion, bigger hams, more intra muscular fat. growth rate can drop down after certain weights, this influences the feed conversion rates extremely. This is depending on genetics, sexe, health status and temperature. The influence of the increase of backfat depth is depending genetic, sexe, health status (often SPF status have higher backfat depth because of the increased feed intak capacity).

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