Category: Food

According to the Department of Public Relations of Derzhprodzhozhivsluzhby, since the legislation of Ukraine is only beginning to adapt in the field of sanitary and phytosanitary measures in accordance with the requirements of the European Union, work is underway to reform the system of state control and monitoring of food safety.

Experts named the whole range of reasons why the main products are becoming more expensive with each week. The first month of the year did not keep up the centuries-old grocery trends in Ukraine: as a rule, later on the pre-New Year tariff increase, food is somewhat cheaper, but in early 2017 the majority of socially important goods continued to rise.

In January 2017, the specialized seaport and the state enterprise Olbia (formerly the Specialized Sea Port Oktyabrsk, Mykolaiv region) increased cargo transshipment by 1.9 times compared to the same period last year, up to 554 thousand tons, the GP said Association of Ukrainian Seaports of 10 February.

With the onset of winter, it is often necessary just to clear the snow: in the yard of a private house, near the garage, in the summer cottage, in front of its own store. But if the snow shovel is wrong, this procedure can be a real challenge for you. Therefore, it is worth a more responsible approach to the choice of snow shovel, and this article will help you with this.

According to the statement of the head of the mission of Ukraine in the European Union, the ambassador, Nikolay Tochitsky, made on February 8, at the end of April 2017, the European Parliament will accept the proposal of the European Commission to increase trade preferences for Ukraine. According to him, today the proposal for additional preferential customs duties is under consideration in the European Parliament, and this issue should be considered at the meeting of the relevant committee, and

Ukrainian farmers planted winter crops for the 2017 harvest in an area of ​​7.173 million hectares. As of February 9, sprouts of winter crops appeared on 6.834 million hectares, or 95.3% of the acreage, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. According to the report, as of the reporting date, 81.7% of the sprouted zones were in good and satisfactory condition (5,581 million hectares), and 18.3% in poor and thinned (1,253 million hectares).

The Russian government should develop a comprehensive solution to support the production and export of agricultural products in the medium term, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, the country requires integrated solutions that will allow Russian producers to increase production and exports of agricultural products, as well as provide them with all the necessary infrastructure and potential information.

Probably every owner of a large plot or garden wants to maximally ease the laboriousness of the land works and reduce the time of tillage to a minimum, therefore gardeners and tend to get a walk-behind tractor and various equipment to it. If you are a happy owner of this useful technique and like to grow a lot of potatoes on your plot, then it makes sense to think about the need for a potato shovel for mechanical harvesting.

February 15, the international conference "Soybean and its products: efficient production, rational use" began in Kiev. The event was organized by APK-Inform in partnership with the Ukrainian Association of Soy Producers and Processors, as well as the Danube Soya International Association.

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as of February 14, in 2016, the foreign trade deficit in Ukraine increased to 2.886 billion dollars, against the trade surplus, which amounted to 610.7 million US dollars in the previous year. In particular, last year the export of goods from Ukraine amounted to 36.

According to data provided by analysts of APK-Inform, during the first four months of 2016-2017 (September-December), Russia exported record volumes of sunflower oil - 704 thousand tons (including to the countries of the Customs Union), and this shows an increase of 1, 5 times compared with the same period last season (458 thousand tons).

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture does not expect any problems with a shortage of high-quality food grains in the country, said Vladimir Volik, director of the Department for the Regulation of Agricultural Markets of the Ministry of Agriculture, on February 13. According to the official, the ministry estimates that at the end of the season food wheat stocks in Russia will be about 16 million tons.

The culture of our food is gradually changing. Internet resources and multiple cooking shows on television offer to cook something new, unusual, or even exotic, and the range of stores is also expanding rapidly. And in the recipes and on the shelves of shops we sometimes see the greens of many varieties, which are still strange for our edges.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine will further increase the acreage of soybeans, as well as create modern agricultural technologies for industry, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovoy on February 15 during his speech at the international conference "Soybean and its products: efficient production, rational use. "

In the period from February 7 to February 13, 2017, the seaports of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation (Novorossiysk, Yeisk, Temryuk, Tuapse, Caucasus and Taman) exported 16 vessels with grain and its by-products in the amount of more than 331 thousand tons, including more 308 thousand tons of wheat, reports the territorial administration of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea on

Kherson agronomists in non-irrigated areas like drought-resistant flax curls. Igor Bragininets from the Alfa-Agro farm, located in the Kherson region, told about this. “Flax receives that water, to which other cultures do not reach,” commented Igor Bragininets. “Last year there were 24 days of dry winds, as a result of which the ground cracked.

Strengthening the exchange rate of the ruble has become a serious drawback for the export of Russian goods, said Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev on February 16. Such a trend may hit the domestic economy, including a drop in grain exports, the Minister of Agriculture said.

In the period from September to January 2016-2017, Ukraine broke a record in exports of soybeans - their deliveries reached 1.55 million tons, an increase of 41% over the same period last season, and 19% compared with previous results in September January 2014-2015, said APK-Inform analyst Yulia Ivanitskaya on February 15 during her report at the international conference "Soybean and its products: efficient production, rational use."

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the export of products of the land branch in 2016 amounted to $ 15.2 billion, which is $ 4 billion more than in 2015. The share of agricultural products in total state exports was 42%. A greater rise in exports was observed in the external supply of fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin - a 20% increase compared with the previous period.

In the Chernigov region in the LLC "Rassvet" (Bobrovitsa, Bobrovitsky district, Chernihiv region) the death of three pigs was registered on February 14. It is reported by the press service of Derzhprodpozhivsluzhby. In the study of selected samples of biomaterial at the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise (