Production sites of the «YASENSVIT» poultry farm got  the HALAL certificate. This certification confirms that the chicken and egg production process is HALAL compliant.Y

asensvit confirmed that they adhere to high production standards imposed on manufacturers by representatives of the Muslim world and can significantly expand the sales market in Ukraine and export markets to the countries of the Middle East, Africa and Asia.T

his means, that this product does not have harmful impurities, antibiotics, growth hormones and is a safe and high-quality product, the use of which is allowed by Muslims and everyone who cares about their health.

Gulfood is the world’s largest and most influential annual food and beverage exhibition, with a lot  of visitors, exhibitors and business operations carried out within 4 days at the Expo international exhibition.

Halal World Food is one of the specialized exhibitions, which includes all Halal buyers, Halal producers and Halal exporters.

Every year, too many specialists from Halal products manufacturing companies participate in the largest Halal World Food exhibition– the recognized largest annual exhibition of Halal products in the world

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the organizers of the Expo 2020 in the UAE announced that the global event has been canceled. The event was planned to be held from October 20, 2020 to April 10, 2021. According to a recent press statement, the Expo will now be held from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The organizers of Dubai Expo 2020 also emphasized that Covid-19 had a significant impact on many countries, and they announced the need to postpone the opening of the Expo for one year to enable them to overcome this problem.

Ukraine got first place in Europe in the export of walnuts. Total export of nuts from Ukraine amounted to 40 thousand tons and brought $ 79.28 million. Nowadays, Ukraine is in the top 5 countries in the world for the production of walnuts, behind the USA, China, Chile and Mexico. Last year, Ukraine harvested 110 thousand tons.

Ukrainian experts predict that export deliveries will increase by 25%, and the country will be able to earn through the sale of 155 million dollars. This writes the portal Inform-UA. In the first four months of the nut export season – from October of last year to January of this year inclusively, Ukraine earned about 77.4 million US dollars on them, which is twenty-three percent more than for the corresponding period of 2018-2019
Among the main buyers of Ukrainian nuts are Turkey, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Romania, Azerbaijan and Albania. Walnuts grows only on seven percent of the globe and Ukraine is in the most favorable zone, which once again proves the fertility and favorable geographical location of our country.

During the quarantine period, Ukraine increased imports of chicken to 16.1 million dollars, which is 46.7% more than in January-April last year (10.9 million dollars). Exports of chicken increased by 11.5% to almost $ 200 million. This is evidenced by the data of the State Customs Service. Most chicken was exported to the Netherlands (18%), Saudi Arabia (15%) and Germany (14.5%).

These statistics suggest that the Ukrainian market is not deficient in chicken and other types of poultry meat. Exports of this product exceeded imports in weight terms by more than four times. Also, from the beginning of 2020, Ukraine exported 175 thousand tons of chicken meat with a total value of $ 223.5 million. Compared to the same period last year, the supply of Ukrainian chicken meat abroad increased by 25% (in monetary terms).
For 5 months, Ukraine supplied the Netherlands with  meat for $ 39.3 million. At the same time, Saudi Arabia bought Ukrainian Halal poultry meat for $ 34.2 million, and the UAE for $ 29 million. Recall that over ten years Ukraine has increased the supply of chicken by 30 times and has become one of the key traders.

The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) agreed on Halal Ukrainian centers – Halal Certification Center LLC and Halal Global Ukraine Certification Center for exporting Halal chiken  meat and products of it from Ukraine to Singapore.

To export Halal products have the opportunity Ukrainian enterprises for the production chiken meat and productsof it, which were previously approved by the competent authority of Singapore.

Singapore’s recogneted of Halal certificates of two Ukrainian certification centers opens up new export opportunities for Ukrainian poultry producers.

At the same time, the lack of a Halal certificate limited the export potential, given the structure of demand in this country.

Now, to export Halal chiken meat to Singapore, need to have an export certificate from the State Food and Beverage Service and a Halal certificate from one of the Ukrainian centers, valid for two years with the possibility of extension.

In order to achieve a pre-quarantine level of development, according to 20% of entrepreneurs, it will take six months, and for 39% – about a year.

 

 

Such data is the result of a study conducted by the European Business Association (EBA).

 

 

So, most of the companies surveyed are ready to restore offline work or return to the office in the near future – 35% in May and 34% in June. In addition, 16% of respondents said that they had already resumed work or had not stopped at all during the quarantine period due to the peculiarities of the company’s activities. Another 15% do not plan yet to return to the office or have not yet decided on the final date.

 

 

In the context of organizing work in the office, 42% plan to introduce flexible or shift work schedules, another 13% will recommend their employees to continue working from home. 20% of companies are preparing for a phased exit to work, starting with 25% of employees in the office with a possible increase to 50%. Another 17% of enterprises are ready to leave 50% of employees from the first weeks with a possible expansion to 75%.

 

 

Based on the experience of the past few months, 62% of directors said that they are considering the option of full or partial change of the operating mode to a remote one on an ongoing basis. Most of them are ready to allow up to 50% of the staff to work remotely.

 

 

Most companies managed to keep their wages unchanged – 62% of respondents reported this. Wage reduction affected 23% of companies, while 7% increased wages for some categories of workers. In another 3% of cases, some categories of workers went on unpaid leave.

 

 

82% of businesses managed to keep the company’s staff unchanged, and 8% even now are looking for new employees. Accordingly, 11% of companies were forced to reduce their staff.

 

 

If we talk about the financial results of two months of quarantine, then most businesses report losses. So, 36% of respondents received up to 20% of losses from income, another 28% – at the level of 20-50% and 18% – 50-75% of losses from income. Only 11% reported that there were no changes, and 3% were able to increase revenue to 20%.

 

 

According to entrepreneurs, today the business needs support, and the following measures were named among the most effective options:

• reduction of the tax burden on the wage fund;

• introduction of payment of assistance to employees from the social insurance fund from the 1st day of employee illness;

• abolition of fines for violation of tax legislation by the end of the year.

 

 

“Obviously, over the next one or two years, we will have to deal with the consequences of this forced stoppage of business and work in an intensive mode. Let’s hope that the epidemiological situation will be favorable, and companies will be able to move to the recovery phase now without repeating the quarantine scenario, ”commented Anna Derevyanko, Executive Director of the European Business Association.

As of January 1, 2020, 678 domestic agricultural enterprises, or one third of the total number specializing in livestock, kept 100-499 head of cattle. In total it is 185,4 thousand heads.

 

 

This was reported by agrotimes.ua. As of January 1, 2020, the total number of cattle in agricultural enterprises was 1.05 million.

 

 

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, agricultural enterprises kept: 550 agricultural enterprises (27%) – kept up to 50 heads of cattle. The total number of livestock in such farms reached 11.2 thousand; 360 enterprises (17.6%) – kept 500−999 heads of cattle. This segment accounted for 250.2 thousand heads; 161 enterprises (8%) kept from 50 to 99 heads of cattle. The total number of animals in this group is 11.4 thousand; 155 enterprises (7.6%) – kept more than 1.5 thousand heads.

 

 

This is the largest segment, which accumulated 415.3 thousand heads; 141 enterprises (7%) – kept 1-1,499 thousand heads of cattle. This category of enterprises accounted for 176 thousand heads.

 

 

It should be noted that the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Mykola Gorbachev, President of the Ukrainian Grain Association, predicted that in 5 years the grain harvest in Ukraine would reach 113 million tons. He stated this during a round table held by Ukrzaliznytsia for business, agronews.ua reports.

 

 

“We now grow 98 million tons of grain, and according to our forecasts in 5 years it will be 113 million tons of grain. At the same time, domestic consumption is falling, so we will export more and more, ”he commented.

 

 

He noted that 70% of grain exported is transported by rail. Expectations for the current marketing year (until July 1) are 60 million tons of exported grain.

As of May 1, 2020, there are 3.45 million head of cattle in Ukraine, which is 6.8% less than in the same period in 2019. This was reported by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, agronews.ua reports.

 

 

According to statistics, the number of cows also decreased by 6.5% to 1.78 million (in 2019 – 1.91 million). The number of pigs also decreased by 6.2% to 5.76 million (6.13 million in 2019). The number of goats and sheep decreased by 6.7% to 1.47 million (2019 – 1.47 million).

 

 

Also, the poultry population decreased to 207.86 million, which is 1.2%. Whereas last year in the same period there were 210.39 million heads in all agricultural enterprises of Ukraine.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan plans to abolish quotas for the export of flour, grain, as well as a number of food products from June 1.

 

 

This was announced by the head of the department Saparkhan Omarov, Kapital.kz reports.

 

 

“Export restrictions and quotas were introduced during the state of emergency to ensure the country’s food security. But today, due to the withdrawal of the emergency and due to the fact that Kazakhstan is now fully provided with foodstuffs, the ministry plans to remove all restrictions and prohibitions from June 1, ”he said.