By KYIV. Dec 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Production of raw milk in Ukraine over this year will be approximately 7.5 million tonnes, which is 13.9% less than last year, of which 4.9 million tonnes will be produced by households (down 15% from 2021), and 2.6 million tonnes (down 5%) – by specialized enterprises.
The total supply of milk and dairy products in 2022 will amount to 7.9 million tonnes, Olena Dadus, the deputy director of the department of livestock management and breeding of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, said in an author’s column on the website of the industry analytical agency Infagro.
According to the forecast calculations presented by her, this year the export of milk and dairy products from Ukraine will amount to 510,000 tonnes, and import – 415,000d tonnes.
Along with this, according to the State Statistics Service, the consumer price index for milk in January-November 2022 increased by 18.4% compared to the same period in 2021.
It is specified that the vast majority of milk is produced in regions where there are no military operations – 94.7%. At the same time, during the year its production increased in certain regions – Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, and Cherkasy. This indicates that there is a demand for dairy products, as well as that the vacuum created by the destruction of enterprises in the south and east of Ukraine is being filled by enterprises from safer parts of the country.
"The current year 2022 has become a challenge and test for the dairy industry. The important thing is that, finally, everyone has found and filled their niche, competing and at the same time not destroying the opponent. When the supply chains of both raw materials and products were destroyed, small local trading networks came to the rescue and began to rapidly create small and medium-sized enterprises for the primary processing of products and thus, the supply of products to local markets was ensured," the expert said.
