Ukrainian exports of cheese and butter will decrease in 2023

The holidays are coming to an end and again the activity of cheese sales is expected to fall. However, cheesemakers are in no hurry to stimulate sales with reduced prices. Moreover, some domestic manufacturers increase the price, despite, and yes, quite high profitability. Cheesemakers have to significantly reduce export prices or even refuse foreign sales altogether. It is not surprising, because European cheeses can be bought cheaper. Therefore, Ukrainian cheese producers will probably refuse to deliver to the EU, leaving traditional sales markets in Kazakhstan or Moldova behind. That is, the export of cheese will drop significantly. Already in December, it decreased more than twice. Well, in general, during the year, due to the adjustment of supplies to the EU, the export of semi-hard cheese increased by almost 70% to 7.7 thousand tons. This is a record volume since 2014, when Ukraine still exported the product to Russia. Last year, for some time, Ukrainian cheesemakers were ...