Ukraine’s meat exports fall by 12 percent

According to National Scientific Centre "Institute of Agrarian Economics", this is the first negative result over the past five years. Since 2015, there has been a positive trend of increasing meat and offal exports due to wide geographical diversification. However, the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the export of this type of agricultural products.

In the first half of 2020, the major importers of Ukrainian meat were Saudi Arabia (15.0%), the Netherlands (14.2%), the UAE (11.1%), Belarus (6.3%), Azerbaijan (5.8%), Iraq (4.6%), Kazakhstan (4.5%).

Poultry remains the export item of this group.*(remains the 'what' export item?) The amount of poultry exports remained virtually unchanged compared to the first half of 2019: 212,000 tonnes. At the same time, foreign currency earnings from the sale of domestic poultry meat on foreign markets decreased by 12% compared to the first half of 2019, totaling $271 million.

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