In the context of the war, Ukrainian dairy farms are facing an acute shortage of staff. Forced migration, mobilization of workers, and reduced opportunities for professional training have created serious challenges for the development of the industry.
This was stated during the XVII International Dairy Congress by Valery Lototsky, associate professor of the Department of Animal Reproductology at Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, head and co-founder of the AVM Advisory Center and Veterinary Service Centers, and AgriAcademy expert.
The International Dairy Congress, organized by the Association of Milk Producers (AMP), is the most powerful event of the year in the dairy industry. This year, it brought together hundreds of leading industry representatives: producers, scientists, and businesspeople to exchange experiences and the latest achievements in the dairy business.
“Today, dairy farm managers are forced not only to maintain production, but also to invest in knowledge to compensate for staff shortages and adapt their work to European requirements for animal welfare and product safety,” the expert emphasized.
That is why, in November 2025, the educational platform AgriAcademy will launch a new certified online course, “Best Practices for Cattle Welfare and Responsible Use of Antibiotics to Prevent the Development of Antibiotic Resistance.”
Three key risk periods and how to control them
The author of the course, Valery Lototsky, notes that the training will help farm workers understand where mistakes are most often made when using antimicrobial drugs and how to avoid them.
The course covers three critical stages in cattle breeding:
“During the third module, participants will learn to identify critical points for the onset of mastitis, follow the milking protocol, select the right antibiotics, and develop their own treatment and prevention plan,” said Valery Lototsky.
AgriAcademy is a free platform that is changing agricultural education
AgriAcademy is a modern online platform for agribusiness, created in 2022 by the EBRD. It is a free online training platform for agricultural workers and students of agricultural education institutions, launched by the EBRD in December 2022 as part of a program to support food security in Ukraine. Its goal is to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainable development of agriculture, which has suffered significant losses due to the war.
Today, the platform offers 28 online courses – over 300 hours of practical training in agronomy, management, technology, processing, storage, and more. Each course includes a test of the students’ knowledge.
The creation and management of the platform (including course development, training tours, etc.) is supported and funded by the EBRD, as well as:
Today, the platform offers:
AgriAcademy is not just about learning. It is a response to the challenge facing the Ukrainian agricultural sector: how to preserve and develop human capital in times of war. Choose a course and grow with us!
Pharmacies with a sickle to dispense antibiotics for a prescription, vineyards – to cover the territory, areas for carrying out combat activities for the military hour, having called the Minister of Health Protection Viktor Lyashko.
“A pharmacist can dispense an antibiotic in a pharmacy in three ways: for an electronic prescription (for example, a pharmacy is connected to the electronic health care system, ESOS), for a paper prescription, that informational supplement, so that during the transitional period it will be added to the official document,” at the second.
Lyashko adding that the patient can get an antibiotic for a prescription from any pharmacist, for whom it is enough to show the pharmacy practitioner a proof or a paper prescription.
“Implementation of this solution is one of the best ways to counteract the global problem of antibiotic resistance, and I can also give you some information about the recognition of this obligation to fight antibiotics in Ukraine,” the minister said.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health has designated that innovations will be introduced step by step within the framework of the transitional period in medical mortgages, as they are applied from the EPHS. As a pledge to protect health, before which the patient is born, do not connect to the ESOS, the doctor, as before, you can write a paper prescription.
There is more than enough blame for pharmacies that are placed in the areas of military (combat) activities or on time-saving territories, the transfer of which was approved by the decree of the Ministry of Reintegration (https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0453-22#Text ).
Thus, pharmacies in Timchasovo for the period of the military camp can and have given prescription antibacterial drugs to patients without a doctor’s prescription, the Ministry of Health clarified.
Such a navigation of the norm is permitted by the reception of the recipes, the pydrodrzlams of the Zbroyshany forces, the volunteer that is a benevolence of the organized survey at the submarine, the yaki may for the provagnita of the Vobrobnitsa, the wholesale of the Torgovyki
The consumption of antibiotics for some groups in Ukraine has grown 5-6 times, Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov said during a press briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
At the same time, the minister noted that the situation is under control.
“The consumption of antibiotics in Ukraine has grown by 5-6 times for some groups. I held meetings with pharmaceutical companies, we have a controlled situation, medical institutions are provided with a two-three-month supply of antibiotics,” he said.
