• Ukraine Has Officially Registered 254 Thousand Unemployed

    As of October 24, there are unemployed: 35% - men, and 65% - women.

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  • Grain sea corridor provides 60% of all agricultural exports from Ukraine

    Ukraine feeds about 400 million people around the world every year, and the extension of the Grain Agreement is necessary for all countries to prevent a global food crisis. Ukraine must preserve the «grain corridor» by enlisting the support of international partners. The importance of the «Grain Initiative» is confirmed by figures.

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  • Odessa ports are working at 25−30% of their capacities

    As a result of the actions of the state-terrorist deliberately delaying the full implementation of the «grain initiative», the Ukrainian ports in recent days only on 25−30% of their capacities. This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of infrastructure.

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  • Ukrainian corn exports at the end of 2021/22 was 27 million tons

    According to analysts of IA "APK-Inform", corn exports from Ukraine in 2021/22 MY was 27 million tons, which is 13% higher than the result of 2020/21 season (23.9 million tons). In addition, this result was the third after the maximum of 2018/19 MY (almost 30 million tons). Moreover, November, December, February, August and September of last season saw record monthly shipments. In addition, December 2021 saw record monthly corn shipments for the entire observation period.

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  • Belgium: Exit program for pig farmers has been delayed

    The start of the Flemish buy-out program for pig farms with high nitrogen emissions, originally planned for this autumn, has been delayed because the EU Commission has not yet completed the review of the program.

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  • De-occupied and renewed: Slobozhansky Agrocombinat

    Slobozhansky Agrocombinat pork farm has been dismissed from occupation. Despite numerous losses and destruction, the enterprise will resume its work.

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  • Ukraine has harvested 29 million tons of grain

    As of October 21, grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine were threshed on 7.4 million hectares, which is 67% of the planned area, of which 29 million tons of grain were harvested, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

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  • Germany: Drop in compound feed production in 2021/22

    Due to the reduced pig inventory, the volume of pig feed production fell by 7.6%, but is still the most important, with 9.1 million tons.

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  • Grant program for gardening: 41 orders signed for 191.5 million UAH

    The implementation of the government program for the creation of horticulture, berrying and viticulture continues. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine signed 41 orders in the amount of 191.5 million UAH. The total area of participating farms is 607.85 hectares. The grants amount depending on the area are from 360 thousand UAH to 10 million UAH per beneficiary.

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  • The Philippines has imported 22% more pork this year

    So far this year, the Philippines has imported 545,214 tonnes of pork and pork products.

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  • Germany: Mandatory labeling of meat according to husbandry

    The Federal Government has approved the draft law on the labeling of food products of animal origin according to the way in which the animals are raised.

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  • Entrepreneurs will be able to get a loan to rebuild destroyed production facilities

    The state will provide financial support to micro, small and medium-sized businesses to restore partially or completely destroyed production facilities as a result of military operations. A decision to this effect was made by the Government at a meeting on October 14, 2022.

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  • Russia threatens to terminate "grain agreement" over UN investigation into Iranian drones

    russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said that in response to the UN investigation into russia's use of Iranian drones, Moscow may «revise cooperation» with the UN, including not extending the «grain agreement».

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  • Belgian pig sector again exempt from contribution to Sanitary Fund

    Pig farmers will again be exempted from contributing to the budget fund for the health and quality of animals and animal products.

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  • Argentina: Pork production down 1.1% through August

    So far this year, pork production has shown a cyclical behavior.

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  • Winners of the seventh wave of the «Vlasna Sprava» program will receive microgrants of almost 50 millionUAH

    The 212 winners of the seventh wave of the programme «Vlasna Sprava»  will receive micro grants to start and develop business in the total amount of 48.7 mln. hryvnias. In general, the Government has already transferred to the recipients of various grant programmes almost 200 million UAH. This was stated by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine — Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko.

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  • Livestock market: week 42

    During last Friday's trading, prices for pig vivace adjusted by 1.5-4 UAH/kg, the same as a week earlier. In particular, in the Center the purchasing prices of the majority of commodity batches fluctuated within 72-74 UAH/kg, a smaller supply of pork in the East kept the prices within 74-76 UAH/kg, in the Western regions the price range narrowed to 70-71 UAH/kg. The weighted average market mark shifted by 2.3% to 72.2 UAH/kg.

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  • What are pork producers planning for October?

    80% of enterprises have stabilized operations and have no significant barriers to farming.

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  • Food systems and global food security are at a critical juncture

    In early 2022, more than 190 million people in the world will be facing severe food insecurity, a Russian war against Ukraine could add another 70 million people to that number. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement released Sunday on the occasion of World Food Day.

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  • What ventilation system will ensure pig welfare?

    Pigs are very sensitive to high temperatures. Lack of proper ventilation can lead to serious consequences due to the inability of pigs to cool down.

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