Ukrainian enterprises refuse to diversify the production of cheeses by milk powder. Inhope of improvement of market conditions they prefer to risk and produce large volumes of cheeses.

It seems the internal sales did not fell much this year in comparison with last year. It is surprising in condition of the decreased purchasing capacity and growing prices for cheese.

Prospects of entering to the market of Kazakhstan give hope to some Ukrainian cheese makers. But they should understand, even those companies which had access to this market all the time, cannot especially increase sales. The Kazakhstan market of cheese is too small taking into account deliveries of huge volumes of very cheap cheese products there.

As a whole the Ukrainian exporters dumping more often in competitive fight for importers. Traditional cheeses are contracted for export in very wide range: USD 3300-3800/t.

Last month Ukrainian cheese plants increased production of rennet cheeses by a quarter, almost to 10 000 t. It was even more than in May 2014. Production of cheese products was increased by 9% to 6500 t.

infagro.com.ua