Ukraine's Union of Poultry Farmers Association has expressed hope that this year Ukraine will be able to retain poultry production at last year's level, despite the difficult financial and economic situation.
"It's difficult to make any forecasts now. We hope that there won't be a fall in production. Our task is to retain production at 1 million tonnes [per year]," the chairman of the association, Oleksandr Bakumenko, told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.
He said that last year, Ukraine produced a record volume of poultry – 1.04 million tonnes in live weight, which is 16% up year-over-year. The rise in production was thanks to poultry farms, which produced 854,000 tonnes of poultry, a 20% rise year-over-year.
