Dairy producers and processors, as well as all others indifferent to the fate of dairy industry, gathered in Kiev on V Ukrainian Dairy Congress in the last two days of February to discuss problems and to find solutions.
The event brought together about 620 participants, 400 of them — managers and specialists of 180 leading dairy enterprises, 30 — representatives of dairy business, more than 110 — the representatives of commercial companies leading at international and Ukrainian markets, the rest — the workers of industry associations, financial institutions, embassies and news agencies.
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Among the participants — representatives of all regions of Ukraine: «Ukrainian Milk Company», «Astarta-Kyiv», «Agricultural firm „Kiev“», «Agro-Union», «Rzhavchyk», «Krokukrzalizbud», «Agro-Region», «PK „Zarya Podillya“», «Vostokahro», «Ukrahrokom», «Agrikor Holding», «Piskivske», «Mriya», «Promin-Private», «Luch», «Erchiki», «Harvest Agroholding», «Podolskyi master», «Ahrokompaniya „Plemzavod Styepnoy“», «Rodina», «Trading House „Dolynske“», «Agricultural Company 2004», «Podolsky master-2004», «AMG Agroholding», «Munnt», «Private-Agrocentr» and others.
The program included: day of debates (28 February) and technical visits to successful farms (29 February).
The Congress took place in the midst of «cheese wars». So it was the main topic for discussions in the first section «Dairy business analytics». Vadim Chaharovskyy, the Chairman of the dairy enterprises Union in Ukraine, analyzed the main trends of world and Ukrainian dairy markets.
Igor Lupinos, executive director of the National Union of milk producers in Russia «Souzmoloko», stressed that the problem of consumer product tampering is not new one. In particular, in Russia last year the supply of vegetable fats increased from 60 to 700 thousand tons. «We, as producers and consumers act not against Ukrainian cheeses as well against counterfeit, no matter who makes it» — said Igor Lupinos.
Andriy Dykun, the President of Ukrainian Dairy Association of Ukraine, said the initiative to issue is to appeal to the government to prevent the arbitrary lower prices for milk. «The reduction of purchase prices for raw milk was due to the prohibition of export of Ukrainian cheese to Russia, also even those processors who have never worked for export», — he said.
It became a tradition to reward the leaders of the dairy industry. This time the awards were given to «Ukrainian Milk Company» (Kyiv region), «Agro-Soyuz» (Dnipropetrovsk region), «Agricultural firm „Mayak“» (Cherkasy region), «Luch» (Mykolaiv region), «Russia» (Kherson region), «Agroproduct LTD» (Kherson region.) and «Vitchyzna» (Sumy region).
In the section «Management and Finance», greatest excitement was caused by the members of the United Arab Emirates. Rakban Ali, Elsafi Danone farm manager, has told about the success of dairy production in the desert country, where people do not even know the taste of cow’s milk until it was their farm. Consultant of international class Flaembaum Israel (Israel) shared his experience of cooling cattle in summer and preventing heat stress. Anatoly Yurkevych, the Chairman of the Board of Directors Milkiland-Ukraine, told about the profit from investments in milk production. During his presentation, Evgenia Uvarkina, director of «Trio» (Russia), shared the experience of farm management. Also, Russians told about advantages of co-operation. Vasyl Redin, the Head of AIC «United milk producers», presented the achievements of the association.
In the section «Technology of milk production» in addition to Ukrainian speakers, there were many foreigners, including Foco Tolsma (Netherlands), Bruce Woodacre (UK), Onno Braitsman (Austria) and John Icer (Germany). Experts described the modern world approaches to keeping cows, feeding, raising young, restoration and management of the economy, prevention of diseases of the extremities, the successful growing heifers, and ways to increase productivity on a dairy farm.
In the section «Veterinary» participants learned about many new preventions and treatment of livestock. Alexey Oleinik, CattleTechnical expert, revealed in details two topics that are vital to successful economic development — reproduction and mastitis. Fedor Roshka, veterinarian of «Vitchyzna», noted the basic veterinary aspects of growing youngstock. Kuzmenkova Sergei, AVM Consultant, told about hoof treatment.
Also visitors could taste dairy products during the Congress provided by «Dairy plant-Olkom», «Danone Ukraine», «Shostka milk plant», «Ternopil Milk plant» and «Milkiland-Ukraine».
The next day, the organizers of the Congress staged a successful technical visits to the Ukrainian company «Vitchyzna» (Shpotivka village, Sumy region) and «Avangard» (Kurin village, Chernihiv region).
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Lyashenko Vladimir
«Prylutskyy hlibodar»
I visited all the Dairy Congresses and I can confidently say that the progress in the work of the Ukrainian Dairy Association is substantial. First of all, I want to mention a young and energetic team of organizers. It is rare to find young and smart and also organized experts of such level.
It is also nice to see that the system of milk production is working smoothly, like clockwork. This is not just a movement, the farmers know how to make feed, buy upgraded milking equipment. We can also see that genotype becomes stronger, breeds are cleaner. After the visits to the farm, I had some inspiration to establish processes at my farm. Now I’m planning to make concrete entrances to the barn.
I also want to note the report of our lecturers. They were more informative. In general, if we will give ear to their advice, then in 5 years, foreigners will come to us and we will teach them how to work.
Fedir Kryukovskyi
«Harvist Holding»
Among the speakers I can identify Ali Rakban «AlSafiDanon» (United Arab Emirates), who showed that dairy cattle has no borders and can be developed in a large scale. Izrael Flamenbaum from Israel also made it clear that the dry climate is not an obstacle to efficient milk production, you need only know the technology and not be lazy and miserto apply them.
Elman Gasanovych, as always, was at his best. Despite the fact that some producers consider his speech as not quite informative compared to last year speech, this person has experience and knows how to help our farmers not just get on its feet, but also increase the productivity of cows.
Borodenko Svetlana
Holding «MonsteraInvest»
Our experts heard a lot of useful things which they didn’t previously know. This includes information about grass mixtures. Especially I want to note Elman Hasanovych Orudzhov. The information was quite interesting.
Does Ukrainian milk have any future? When I talked to my colleagues, with whom I went to USA (trip organized by Dykun Global Consult), I saw a spark in their eyes. The desire to produce milk is definitely present. We see great prospects in this field. The main thing is that the state does not destroy our initiative.