In the average diet of Ukrainians, chicken is 5 kg more than pork. Ukrainian consumers vote for red or white meat with a wallet - this is a common situation for poor countries. Red meat is primarily pork, beef and lamb, and white meat is chicken, rabbit and fish. And pork is now very affordable.
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Over the last year, oil prices in Ukraine have risen significantly, eggs have been added to the price by up to 50%, and other types of meat have risen in price, but retail prices for pork remain at 2020, according to the Ukrainian Pig Farmers Association. Today, chicken is bought more and perhaps this is not only due to the attractive price? The development of pig farming has been severely hampered by African swine fever - ASF, which has spread throughout Ukraine. And perhaps subconsciously, people have begun to prefer safer meat? If we reject the problem of ASF, we will see another - the quality and taste of meat. Let's be honest - our pig farmers have something to work on. "There is no sustainable quality of industrially grown pork in Ukraine. With chicken, everything is different - in industrial chicken farming, as in most parts of the world, two main crosses are used, so consumers get very predictable consumer characteristics of chicken, - explains Eugene Shatokhin, founder of ...
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