Despite the fact that the text of the bill has already passed the approval of the Ministry (the text was sent back on August 05), it will not go for registration in Parliament.

Drought and heat waves will cut Europe's corn crop in half than predicted in July.

August ends with the constancy of purchasing prices for pigs of slaughter conditions in the Center and the East, state analysts of the Association Ukranian Pig Breeders according to the results of the weekly monitoring.

According to the decree, if an enterprise has received partial reimbursement of the cost of purchased purebred animals, reconstructed/constructed facility or grain storage/processing facility, it must report on availability and intended use for the next 2 years.

The inventory of pork in cold storage at the end of June 2022 remained well above year-ago levels, but available supply differs greatly among products.

According to Rabobank's third-quarter global pork report, African swine fever, inflation, and policies challenge growth while trade prospects rise.

The amount of pork produced in the first half of 2022 was 2.3 million tons, down 10.1% compared to the same period in 2021.

The study by Drs. Jayson L. Lusk and Glynn T. Tonsor of the University of Kansas, which was funded by Pork Checkoff, concluded that the main causes of higher U.S. retail pork prices starting in 2020 were the macroeconomic environment and increased production costs.

VAT reimbursement in Ukraine for export actually still does not work, which has a direct negative impact on the prices of agricultural products, farmers' incomes and investments in production and logistics. Now, given the period when the CEA VAT did not work, farmers expect reimbursement for February-June 2022, that is as much as 5 months. This is reported by the Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business.

It is the 181st day since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russians into Ukraine. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are heroically defending our great Motherland! And millions of Ukrainians help the defenders in the rear. Everyone is on their own front.

During the war period in Ukraine 14505 deals on the area of 25257 hectares were concluded. This is reported in the Ministry of Agrarian Policy. Regions with active land market during the war (by number of transactions and by area of land with regard to which transactions are registered): Kirovograd region (2.98 thousand ha), Vinnitsa region (2.96 thousand ha), Poltava region (2.88 thousand ha), Khmelnytsky region (2.48 thousand ha) and Dnipropetrovsk region (2.1 thousand ha).

Drought weather conditions, which Europe has faced this year, may persist for at least three more months and affect Ukraine. This is the subject of an EU report.

In Ukraine with the beginning of the war the food prices rose by 20% due to a number of reasons. This was stated by Denis Marchuk, deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association of War Agencies, during his broadcast at the Media Center Ukraine-Ukrinform on August 22.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has supported amendments to the mechanism of reservation, which proposed to detail the list of persons who may receive deferment of conscription.

UNDP and Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food will work together to strengthen low-carbon agriculture, expand access to green finance, digitalization and develop export potential.

At the end of the summer, pork prices have consolidated across the country, analysts of the Association Ukranian Pig Breeders noted according to the results of weekly monitoring.

In August, wages refrained from falling in most regions. The exceptions are Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Sumy and Ternopil regions. Kiev, Vinnitschina and Zakarpattya saw a very slight decrease in average wages of no more than 2.7% per month. The biggest drop in the labor market and the lowest average monthly salary was in Kharkiv and the oblast. Here in August the lowest salaries were offered in Ukraine, which fell by -41% compared to the previous month (from 18,000 UAH in July to 10,600 UAH in August).

In order to ensure an uninterrupted supply of foodstuffs to the population under martial law the Government has introduced a simplification of requirements for mandatory labeling of imported food products in the state language.

In 5.5 months of Russia's war against Ukraine, almost 10 million tons of eight items of agricultural products and their processing have been exported. In the first two weeks of August, Ukraine has already exported almost 2 million tons of grain, while in all of July it was 3 million tons. Corn - 776 thousand tons and wheat - 339 thousand tons left the most in the first half of August.

Following the grain agreements signed by Ukraine, Turkey, the UN Secretary General and Russia, world wheat prices fell by 8%.