The costs of crop production increased by 10.6%, and livestock production - by 20.9%. According to estimates of the Municipal Statistics Service, the cost of agricultural production in Ukraine in 2016 increased by 13.5% compared with 2015.
In particular, the joint costs of crop production increased by 10.6%, and livestock production - by 20.9%. The State Statistics Committee stated that the amount of expenditures on material and technical resources of industrial origin used in agricultural production increased by 4.2% last year. But in December compared with November, the cost of agricultural production increased by 2.3%. Expenses on the creation of products of plant origin in December increased by 2.4%, and the animal - by 1.9%.
In addition, farmers have increased the cost of material and technical resources of industrial origin by 1.8%. Compared with 2014, in 2015 the cost of agricultural production in Ukraine increased by 50.9%.