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Independent pig farms may disappear in Ukraine

  • 28 May 10:24

A significant portion of independent pig farms in Ukraine may disappear, in case their managers will not change their operational strategies. That opinion was shared recently by Nikolay Babenko, executive director of the Ukraine meat industry association, against local news outlet Meat-Inform. Babenko explained that there is an ongoing consolidation trend in the Ukraine’s pig industry. For independent pig farms it would be hard to fit in the new industry landscape. He added that it is clear that the market environment will worsen for independent pig farms, since a growing number of meat processing plants will shift to using pork from their own farms. Read more...