Tetiana Antonenko, International Dairy Magazine

It is logically to look round and make some conclusions at the end of the year. If you have a look at numbers, milk processing in Ukraine, in spite of being sensitive to changes, shows rather good results. At the same time, production and consumption statistics in some way reflects existing problems. 

On the one hand, we observe milk consumption growing as well as its products per capita, on the other — high purchase prices of milk and, as a result, milk products. Besides more imported products are appearing on store shelves and you can rarely find homemade butter. The idea of eating organic products, especially milk products, is getting popular, what we can’t really say about “cheese products” and spreads. Whatever foreign experts say about Ukrainian underdeveloped cheese eating culture, our consumer has learned how to differentiate between real quality cheese and processed cheese very fast. If his wallet wasn’t so tiny, the latter wouldn’t have any market prospects.

Find more details in the magazine “Farm and Milk” № 6 (19), December, 2013.