The first half of August for the operators of the domestic pork market ends with the notes of slight excitement, and prices react accordingly. These are the results of the weekly monitoring of prices for pigs of slaughter conditions voiced in the analytical department of the Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Russia's invasion of Ukraine would cause starvation for 40 million people worldwide and Africa would suffer the most. This was reported by Reuters.

The Government has allocated another 45 million hryvnia to the Ministry of Economy, which will be used for grants for the creation of new processing enterprises. This was announced by Prime Minister Denis Schmigal.

So, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with the financial support of Canada has launched a new project worth 40 million dollars (52 million Canadian dollars) to further solve the problem of lack of granaries in Ukraine.

October hog contract remains highly elevated, recently settling at $98.40, or the highest price since April 20.

According to export statistics available to analysts of IA "APK-Inform", in July 2022 1.7 million tons of grain crops were shipped from Ukraine to foreign markets, which is by 21% more than the exported volume in June this year (1.4 million tons), but by 45% less than a year earlier (3.1 million tons).

In June of 2022, Ukraine imported 9,000 tonnes of pork, 4 times higher compared to June of 2021, as the country continues battling against the disruptions of domestic production.

ABPA (the Brazilian Association for Animal Protein) presented its forecasts for the pig and poultry sectors in the country during 2022 and the next year.

ProGrow is an integrated management and monitoring system for growing fattening pigs from weaning to slaughter.

The government has made changes to the program to support processing enterprises within the framework of the project "eRabota". Now physical persons-entrepreneurs can receive grants under this program. This was announced by Prime Minister Denis Shmigal at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

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.