Animal feed ingredients from the Ukraine could be banned by Belarus

Feed from the Ukraine

Officials of Belarus have recently announced that they may impose a ban on the import of some goods of Ukrainian origin, particularly sunflower oil, corn and soybean meal. The press service of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine (Gosvetfitosluzhba) reported the outcome of a meeting between Ivan Bisyuk, president of the Gosvetfitosluzhba, and Yury Pyvovarchyk, first deputy director of the department of Veterinary and Food at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus. The press service also reported that Belarus, as a member of the Customs Union, told Ukraine that it will ask for support from Russia and Kazakhstan to initiate similar bans on the import of some Ukrainian products. Read more ...

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Grain railway cars banned from leaving country

Ukraine's State Railway Administration has banned its grain railway cars from leaving the country, a spokeswoman for the body said on Friday, effectively halting railway grain exports. "It is a temporary restriction which was introduced in a bid to secure domestic shipments," she said.

She added that the ban had come into force on February 1 and would remain until a special decision by the railway authority. The spokeswoman said Ukraine operated about 11,000 grain cars and around 1,000 of them were outside of Ukrainian territory as of February 3. "Our service is relatively cheap and traders prefer to keep our cars for as long as possible," she said. Read more ...

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APK a Ukrainian pork producer invest in feed production

A Ukrainian pork producing company APK-Invest Company (Donetsk region), one of the largest in the Ukraine , plans to invest €28.4 million (US$37.3 million), in compound feed production by 2015. According to the company’s report of January 26, it expects to reach an annual output level of 200,000 tons of compound feed by 2015.

This would be twice the production of 2011, APK has been boosting compound feed product by 50 percent year on year in 2011 to 90,000 tons. The company points out that this expansion was achieved due to expanding production capacities of its existing feed mills. Read more ..

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