At the present moment risks of pork import have gone down because of weak market in Ukraine as well as in European countries and other world markets as Brazil, Canada and USA. The head of Association of Pig Breeders of Ukraine Artur Loza told about this during the press-conference «Is there collapse at the pork market? What provokes the price decrease and what impact will it have on pork production in 2016?» in UNIAN.
Expert named hryvnia drop in as one of key factors that restrain pork import into Ukraine.
«Average European price per kilo live weight is about 0.8-0.9 EUR. Almost the same is in Ukraine. In fact, this situation protects us against heavy volume of pork supply from abroad. Last year we had higher prices on domestic market, that’s why we had definite volume of import — 3.5 tons of pork in general. The others were by-products and fat. So you can see that it was very few of quality pork. From the rest cheap products are produced,» — he commented.
Mr. Loza said the pig industry is «cyclic», so the market gap will appear in late summer — early autumn 2016. According to the expert it could be the reason of price increase on live pigs basis and provoke imports from abroad.
Association of Pig Producers of Ukraine is unprofitable, voluntary organization. The creation date is July 14, 2011. Now APPU joins 35 households, the sow herds of which compose 35% of nationwide capacities. The main objective of Association is to protect corporate rights and interests in the field of pigbreeding, to attain the worldwide standards of manufacturing owing to implementation of modern technologies.
