On 23 April 2013, the Ukraine Dairy Market Forum took place in Kiev to launch a policy dialogue between the EBRD, FAO, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, key market regulators and players aiming at improving the climate for investments in the dairy sector and bringing cooperation between the private and public sectors to a new level. The Forum is one of the activities of a technical assistance project worth €60.000 supported by the CEI Fund at the EBRD contributed by Italy.
The Forum brought together senior sector specialists and practitioners from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, leading associations from the industry, domestic and foreign dairy companies as well senior sector experts from the FAO and the EBRD.
Participants of the Forum planned to set up a Working Group, which will be looking at issues related to the assessment of the dairy industry investment needs in the country, upgrade of milk farms, improvement of raw milk quality and overall improvement of the dairy industry standards to ensure Ukraine’s global competitiveness.
Once set up, the Working Group will review the existing legislation related to the dairy sector of Ukraine and will provide professional advice on new legislation required to assure the sustainable development of the sector. It will also help in coordinating market strategies and prices between milk producers and processors based on transparent market evaluation mechanisms used worldwide. Leading international industry experts will also be involved in specific discussions on key technical and marketing issues of the dairy sector.
In the context of the Forum, the FAO and EBRD presented findings from the recent Ukraine Dairy Market study, which reported that Ukraine has significant investment potential to improve the quality of milk and milk products through the development of modern commercial dairy farms.
See also: http://www.ebrd.com/pages/news/press/2013/130423.shtmlContact: dovier@cei.int