By 2026, swine producers must implement animal welfare standards. How ready is the industry and how much will it cost?

The arrival of gene editing tools has led the world to a point in time when dozens if not hundreds of new food products will soon be available. They will be added to products already out there which are genetically modified.

Among them there are more manufacturing companies (32% of all users), trading companies (22%) and end customers (17%) - stores, farms, etc.

Here it should be noted that the chosen concept is not an additional import duty (difficult to administer), but the introduction of a 10% levy on currency exchange transactions for the purchase of all imported goods and services.

At the beginning of August, pork prices continued their upward movement, say analysts of the Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders.

Herds: The number of herds in the sample has fallen from 239 in June 2021 to 199 in June 2022, a 17% year-on-year drop, following a steady decline since September.

Farmers today cannot leave Ukraine and negotiate directly for export deliveries, so they are forced to sell grain to traders for nothing.

In July pork in retail rose in price by 2.7% compared to June. Such results of the monitoring of prices of national supermarket chains were announced by analysts of the The Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders.

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine will begin organizing the delivery of this year's harvest grain to the ports within a week. Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said this on August 1 during an online news marathon, APK-Inform reported with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.

August 1 trading results on the SWOT exchange show that quotations of wheat and corn for August contracts fell after the first vessel with grain left Ukrainian ports since the beginning of the war. APK-Inform reports about it.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has issued the first four grant orders for the planting of gardens and berries for a total of 16.8 million hryvnia.

The export takes place in the framework of the "grain agreement" between Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN. The coordinating center in Istanbul is responsible for monitoring the operation of the sea corridor and the safety of the operation.

This week, the Verkhovna Rada passed bill 7451, which unblocks "small-scale privatization". Dozens of declining businesses will soon find new efficient owners.

The Government and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine are doing everything possible to help the agrarians to successfully pass the spring field work 2022.

In July, the import frenzy eased somewhat: the flow of pork from abroad decreased by 45% compared to June - from 9 to 4.9 thousand tons respectively. Such results of foreign trade in pork were announced in the analytical department of the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders.

Subjects of management, wishing to get information about detection, presence (presence) of unregistered genetically modified organisms in crops or harvested crops, have possibility, according to the Law of Ukraine "About main principles of state supervision (control) in the sphere of economic activity" to apply to chief departments of State Supervision (control) Service in areas with written statement for unplanned state supervision (control) measures.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative Victoria Mikhalchuk said.

The European Commission has amended the indicative maps of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to include Ukrainian logistics routes. This is reported by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has developed a new tool to make it easier for farmers to self-monitor the use of antibiotics in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, within the Computerized System for the Control of Veterinary Antibiotic Prescriptions (PRESVET).

At the end of July prices for live pigs "borrowed" what was lost during the last two weeks, state in the analytical department of the Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders.