Ukraine tripled pork imports

In five months of the current year, 1.4 thousand tons of chilled and frozen pork meat worth 3.7 million dollars were brought to Ukraine from abroad. USA. This is almost three times less than the receipt of the corresponding meat raw material for the same period last year. This is reported by analysts of the "Swine Farmers of Ukraine" Association. It is noted that domestic prices on the pork market, significantly lower than last year, created a natural economic barrier to the arrival of imported pork. Thus, although pork prices in the EU countries for January–May were 5-6% lower than in the first five months of 2023, the two-digit decrease in purchase prices for carcasses in Ukraine against the background of other economic and geopolitical challenges does not contribute to activation supplies from the Commonwealth of Nations. "On the other hand, in the last two months, the "baton" was taken over by Canada, whose specific weight in the geographical structure of the arrival of ...