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Capital city: Kyiv
Population: 45,700,395 (July 2009 est.)
Currency: Ukrainian Hryvnia
Language: Ukrainian (and Russian)
After Russia, the Ukrainian republic was far and away the most important economic component of the former Soviet Union, producing about four times the output of the next-ranking republic. Its fertile black soil generated more than one-fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain, and vegetables to other republics. Shortly after independence was ratified in December 1991, the Ukrainian Government liberalized most prices and erected a legal framework for privatization, but widespread resistance to reform within the government and the legislature soon stalled reform efforts and led to some backtracking. Output by 1999 had fallen to less than 40% of the 1991 level. Ukraine's dependence on Russia for energy supplies and the lack of significant structural reform have made the Ukrainian economy vulnerable to external shocks.
GDP - composition by sector
agriculture: 9.3%
industry: 31.7%
services: 58.9% (2008 est.)
Source: CIA
Latest news on Ukrainian poultry
23 May 2012 - Net profits made by one of largest poultry producers in Ukraine—MHP— have increased bb 143% in the Q1 2012 up to US$48 million (compared to US$20 million in Q1 2011).
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21 May 2012 - Ovostar Union, a vertically integrated holding company, one of the leading egg and egg products producers in Ukraine, has announced its unaudited financial and operational results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2012.
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26 Apr 2012 - Oleg Bakhmatyuk, owner of Avangard, Ukraine’s largest egg producer, has expressed confidence that in the next few years, Ukraine has all chances to lead global egg exports.
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20 Apr 2012 - Ovostar Union, one of the leading producers of eggs and egg products in Ukraine, intends to increase egg production up to 1.45 billion units by 2014.
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22 Mar 2012 - Ovostar Union, one of the leading egg and egg products producers in Ukraine, announces consolidated financial results for the year ended 31 December 2011.
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21 Mar 2012 - A market crisis could see Ukraine increasing its volume of poultry imports by 30-40% in the first quarter of 2012, according to data revealed by Deputy Director of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Alexander Yaroslavsky. Imports of pork and beef could double.
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08 Mar 2012 - In Ukraine, egg prices rose by 18% to 9.4-9.5 UAH (US$ 1.17-1.18) per package of 10 eggs in February.
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07 Mar 2012 - Ovostar Union, a vertically integrated holding company, one of the leading egg and egg products producers in Ukraine, has completed the second stage of the Ovostar egg processing plant which had been implemented as a part of the current investment program.
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02 Mar 2012 - Ukrainian poultry houses, which specialise in growing broilers have started introducing cage housing into their production process.
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01 Mar 2012 - Complex Agromars (Gavrilovsky Kurchatov, Kiev region), one of the largest poultry producers in Ukraine, plans to double its chicken production capacity in 2012 to 300 tons per year.
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21 Feb 2012 - Vertically integrated holding, Ovostar Union, one of the leading manufacturers of eggs and egg products in Ukraine increased net profits up to 400 mln. hrv. (US$ 49.8 mln) in 2011, 36% more than in 2010.
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20 Feb 2012 - Ukraine's poultry industry will continue to grow in 2012, but at a somewhat slower rate, according to a recent USDA Gain Report.
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09 Feb 2012 - One of the largest producesr of chicken meat in Ukraine, MHP may resume supplying chicken to Russia.
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07 Feb 2012 - Avangardco, the largest producer of shell eggs and egg products in Ukraine and the second largest in the world, has reported a 3.3% year on year increase in the total poultry flock in its trading update for the year ended 31 December 2011. The number of laying hens increased by 9.6%.
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06 Feb 2012 - MHP, one of the largest poultry producers in Ukraine, increased the volume of poultry production in 2011 to 384 thousand tonnes, up 7% more than 2010.
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30 Jan 2012 - Poultry production in Ukraine in 2012 may increase by 3-5% compared with the level of 2011, stated the Union of Poultry Farmers of Ukraine board of directors chairman Alexander Bakumenko.
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18 Jan 2012 - Several batches of poultry belonging to Agromars, one of Ukraine’s largest poultry producers have been found to be contaminated with salmonella, according to the results of a scheduled inspection of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service (Gosvetsluzhba) of Ukraine.
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12 Jan 2012 - Fowl cholera has been actively spreading in Moldova over the last three months, representatives of the country’s Ministry of Agriculture recently reported at a press conference.
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02 Jan 2012 - The Cabinet of Ministers in the Ukraine has extended the licensing of imports of fresh, chilled or frozen poultry meat in 2012, which was introduced in April 2011.
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12 Dec 2011 - Three guests from the largest poultry producer in Ukraine, Mironovskiy Hlebproduct, were given an insight into the US chicken industry when they visited Cobb-Vantress in Arkansas.
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