Ukraine produced 9.7 million tons of milk for 11 months of 2016

In January-November 2016 the production of milk decreased by 2.3% or 231.8 thousand tons, compared to the same period last year, and amounted to 9.74 million tons.

This was reported in the State Statistics Service data.

At the same time milk production in individual farms decreased by 3.5% (263.1 thousand tons) to 7.2 million tons for the reporting period.

It is noted that milk production in the agricultural enterprises increased by 1.3% (31.3 thousand tons) to 2.54 million tons.

It was earlier reported that milk export for industrial processing within 10 months of the current year amounted to 381.6 thousand tons, which is 33.4% less than for the same period last year — 572.5 thousand tons.