OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2011. Current pace of production of poultry meat allow predicting its performance increase by one third to 2015. Last year it was produced nearly 1.5 million tons. The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said this during a joint working visit with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych to Kiev region and visit the "Complex "Agromars".

“According to experts, preservation of the growth of industry will ensure production of poultry meat in the volume of 1845 tons in 2015, including 1618 tons of farms, more than in 2010, respectively by 33 and 38 per cent” - Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said.

According to the Minister this will ensure not only the domestic consumer market, but also created an export potential. To do this we have to invest 9350 million UAH during five years.

Favorable conditions for development of the poultry farming allow increasing production of poultry and eggs. "Thanks to the cooperation of state and local farmers the industrial poultry farming for the last few years we managed to revive and meat consumption per capita - to increase. In 2010 the company produced 1224.8 thousand tones of poultry meat and total number of poultry in all categories of farms as of January 1, 2011 was totalled 202.1 million head, - Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said.

Mykola Prysyazhnyuk concluded that today domestic industrial poultry farming augment exports. "Over the past few years, export of poultry from Ukraine increased and in 2010 was amounted to 33.0 thousand tons. The same is true for egg products last year the export of this product was amounted to 3929 tons", - the Minister added.