On June 12, Kyiv hosted the business forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2024”, which brought together representatives of agribusiness, processing, supply, finance and investment, government agencies, experts and bloggers. We are grateful to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for this opportunity!
We are grateful to the guests, participants, partners and sponsors of the Forum from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and other cities and towns of Ukraine who attended the business forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2024” and joined the discussion of crucial issues that help businesses move from confrontation to cooperation, provide new opportunities for scaling and development of entire sectors of the Ukrainian economy!
The Forum highlighted the issues that hinder the development of the Grain – Pigs – Meat value chain, held active discussions, proposed solutions and provided effective tools.
Forum participants learned about:
– The importance of developing industries that create added value in Ukraine’s economy in times of war, with raw material exports blocked, expensive logistics, and a cheap price for the raw material itself and its minimal added value
– The possibility of replacing grain exports with exports of meat and meat products, which are high value-added goods.
– The state and prospects of the pig and meat industry in Ukraine during and after the war.
– The next stages of implementation of the New Pig Breeding of Ukraine program, which envisages a fourfold increase in the number of pigs, from 6 to 12 billion euros of added value.
– Possibility of eradicating ASF in Ukraine through vaccine prevention, lifting the stamping out in industrial pig production and unblocking pork exports.
– Establishment of an international consortium to support ASF control measures in Ukraine and Europe.
– Adaptation of pig production in Ukraine to a possible decline in pig prices due to overproduction in the absence of pork exports.
– Investment opportunities for the meat industry, pig production and farmers.
– Newest and digital technologies for pig production and meat processing.
– The Family Pig Farms social project, which will help war veterans start a successful pig farming business.
– Opportunities to obtain additional funding, grants, and investment.
– Training of highly qualified personnel for meat industry enterprises.
– Implementation of a mechanism for cooperation between producers and processors to protect profitability throughout the chain.
We call for cooperation for the development of Ukraine and believe in Ukrainians who, even in the most difficult times, do their best to rebuild our country. Only together we can make the Ukrainian agro-industrial complex stronger, more sustainable and competitive in the global market!
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On June 12, Kyiv Golf Center will host a business forum that has already become traditional – “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2024”.
This is a grand event that brings together all areas of the country’s food security – grain business, pig farming, meat industry, retail and related industries – to resolutely overcome the challenges of today, and creates coalitions at all links of the food chain – from a grain in the field to a finished meat product on the consumer’s table.
“Grain. Pigs. Meat-2024 provides its participants with a unique opportunity to learn how to increase their profits, presents real tools for obtaining added value, offers an alternative to blocked grain exports, introduces leading industry experts, producers and processors, suppliers of equipment and genetics, informs about innovations, current trends, financial and technical opportunities.
This year the following issues will be discussed:
– Prospects for the development of the Ukrainian grain market through the prism of the pig and meat industries
– Possibility of replacing grain exports with exports of meat and value-added meat products
– The state and prospects of development of the pig and meat industry in Ukraine during the war and after its end
– Implementation of the concept “New Pig Production of Ukraine”, its impact on the country’s food security and benefits of the industries from its implementation
– Ukraine without ASF – all about the eradication of ASF through vaccine prevention
– Investment opportunities for grain producers, new and existing pig farms, and related industries
– The lowest cost of Ukrainian pigs in the world now and forever
– Effective technologies in pig breeding and meat industry
– “Road map” for creating your own enterprise in pig breeding
– Presentation of a social project that will help war veterans to start a successful business in pig production
– Where and under what conditions to attract financing, grants, support for producers and processors
– Sales and domestic trade, cooperation with national networks, own retail
– Sales and foreign trade, who can export, where and how to organize meat exports
The meat industry and pig farming are now set to become the real drivers of our economy, and the tandem with retail and related industries will definitely lead Ukraine’s economy to prosperity. Join us!
Forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat-2024” will be held on June 12, 2024 in Kyiv, Kyiv Golf Center (20 Obolonska Embankment, Kyiv).
Forum organizers: Association of Meat Industry and Center for Efficiency in Livestock Production.
Business forum program and registration by the link: https://meatindustry.com.ua/
Open4business is a media partner
The number of pigs in Ukraine in 2024 in all categories of farms increased by 3%, and poultry – by 2.2%, said Olena Dadus, head of the Livestock and Breeding Department of the Agrarian Development Department of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, at the MeatForum industry conference.
“Domestic livestock producers almost completely supply the domestic food market and its processing component. Last year, meat consumption in Ukraine per capita amounted to 54.7 kg, while the minimum requirement is 52 kg. The consumption forecast for 2024 is 53.9 kg, due to a decrease in beef consumption. However, there will be an increase in public demand for pork and poultry as the most affordable types of meat,” she said in a statement by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
It is noted that in 2023, poultry production in Ukraine increased by 5.8% compared to last year, and that this segment is the one that meets export demand for Ukrainian products. Pork and beef production declined slightly, and its pace slowed significantly.
According to the agency, due to the increase in domestic meat production, the total volume of meat imports decreased. Ukraine imported meat products from Poland, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, and Canada.
At the same time, there was an increase in meat exports. The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, China, Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, and Georgia were the most frequent buyers of Ukrainian products.
KSG Agro and Genesus Ukraine LLC (Kyiv) have signed a one-year contract for the supply of 3.5 thousand head of Canadian-bred pigs of Genesus breeding, the press service of the agricultural holding reported.
According to the report, Genesus Ukraine undertook to supply 3.5 thousand heads of purebred and hybrid pigs GP (Yorkshire) and F1 (Yorkshire + Landrace) to the pig farms of KSG Agro in 2024. In addition, 30 heads of purebred boars of the Duroc and Landrace breeds will be supplied under the agreement. The first delivery of pigs is expected on March 1, 2024.
“We have repeatedly noted the qualitative advantages of Canadian Genesus pigs, which are superior to their European counterparts in terms of litter size, farrowing weight and meat quality. This year, we will continue the process of renewing the pig herd, which began in 2023 and is aimed at improving the quality characteristics of the herd. These include improving the health of piglets and improving the taste of meat,” said Sergiy Kasyanov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KSG Agro.
“Our company has been cooperating with KSG Agro, one of the leaders in the Ukrainian pig breeding market, for three years now. And this year our cooperation is reaching a new level in terms of volume. This once again proves in practice that Genesus pigs are hardy, grow quickly and develop well, producing the maximum possible number of kilograms of piglets per square meter of farm,” said Genesus representative in Ukraine Yevhen Shatokhin.
KSG Agro noted that the main quality indicators of Canadian Genesus pigs are 2.55 farrowings per year, 16 piglets born, the average weaning age is 21 days, and the average weaning weight is 6-6.3 kg.
KSG Agro, a vertically integrated holding company, is engaged in pig production, as well as the production, storage, processing and sale of grains and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21 thousand hectares in Dnipropetrovska and Kherson regions.
According to the agricultural holding, it is one of the top 5 pork producers in Ukraine. In 2023, it launched a “network-centric” strategy, which will move from developing a large location to a number of smaller pork production facilities located in different regions of Ukraine.
In January-September 2023, KSG Agro earned $1,336 million in net profit, which is almost 14 times more than in the same period in 2022. Its EBITDA for the three quarters of this year increased by 67% to $4.5 million, and sales revenue increased by 16% to $11.9 million.
Genesus is the world’s largest privately held genetics company specializing in the breeding of pigs. Genesus is headquartered in Manitoba, Canada. The company’s nucleus and breeding farms are located in many countries around the world, including Canada, the United States, China, Thailand, the Philippines, France, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Genesus Ukraine LLC supplies pigs from the UK and Canada, and in Ukraine owns pig breeding facilities at Agrarian Company 2004 LLC (Popovtsi, Khmelnytsky region), which is part of the Vitagro agricultural holding.
According to the Unified Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiary of Genesus Ukraine is Andriy Zaretskyi (Kyiv).
On September 15, Kyiv will host the business forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2023”. This is an unprecedented event that will bring together the grain business, pig farming and meat industry to overcome the consequences of the war. This is an event where the possibility of increasing the profitability of crop production will be substantiated, where real tools for obtaining added value will be presented, where an alternative to grain exports will be justified and why pig production will save the grain market of Ukraine!
The main goal of the forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2023” forum is to prevent losses in crop production due to the blocking of grain exports and to create added value of more than 200% from the implementation of the intersectoral program “New Pig Production 2025”.
Also, within the framework of the business forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2023” business forum, a specialized exhibition Meat Industry Expo-2023 will be held, where you will be able to present and get acquainted with modern solutions from feed production, pig keeping and breeding to meat processing and trade. The exhibition will be open throughout the day of the forum.
So, if you don’t want to miss this unique opportunity to communicate with leading experts, manufacturers and suppliers of advanced equipment, pig genetics, producers and meat processors, as well as learn about current trends, financial and technical opportunities to start a new business or scale an existing one in pig production, you should visit the business forum “Grain. Pigs. Meat – 2023”.
The forum will be held on September 15, 2023 in Kyiv, Golf Center Kyiv (20 Obolonska embankment).
The forum is organized by the Meat Industry Association, the Center for Efficiency Improvement in Livestock Production and Agro Marketing Agency.
Forum partners: Cofarming Ukraine, Eurofeed, Topigs Norsvin.
The forum is for you if you:
– Aiming to jump out of raw material production
– A grain producer who does NOT want to give grain at cost price
– You are engaged or want to engage in pig production, but do not know how
– You want to process meat or already process it, but dream of your own pig farm
– Want to scale up your existing pig business
– Looking for or providing financing
– You can share your experience and present equipment
– A bioethanol producer who wants to double profits on production waste
– Decided to expand the range of products and markets
– A supplier who wants to expand its customer base
– Planning to diversify your business
– Aiming to create added value
The main topics of the forum
– Prospects of Ukraine in the world pork market
– State and prospects of development of pig breeding and meat industry of Ukraine
– Analysis of grain market development through the prism of pig production
– Presentation of a model for replacing grain exports with exports of meat and value-added meat products
– Prevention of ASF as an incentive for the development of pig farms
– Real benefits in the “grain and meat products” chain from the implementation of the intersectoral program “New Pig Production 2025”
– Biofuels and animal husbandry: smart synergy – big profits
– Financing of pig production: available loans, grants, investments
– Investment opportunities of the New Pig Production 2025: benefits for grain producers and future pig producers
– The lowest cost of Ukrainian pigs in the world now and forever
– Feed production: an underestimated area of grain processing
– Effective technologies in pig and meat industry
– Quality, safety and certification of meat products
– Modern technologies for producers and processors of meat products
– Modern pig genetics and feeding
The conference will also include a specialized exhibition “Meat Industry Expo”
Preliminary program*.
9:00-9:30 Registration. Welcome coffee.
Permanent exhibition “Meat Industry Expo”
9:30-10:00 Opening of the conference. Greetings of the organizers and partners
10:00-12:00 Session 1: Development of the pig industry in the conditions of war. The role of the government and business efforts
12:00-12:30 Coffee break
12:30-14:00 Panel discussion “How grain producers can earn 200% on pig production”
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Round table discussion “Bioethanol and livestock or how to get 400% profit from the right synergy”
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Discussion “New pig production = Precision pig production. Cost, profitability, profit, investments”
17:30-18:00 Summarizing the results. Closing of the conference
18:00 – 20:00 Friendly dinner, free communication, golf game
* The program is subject to change, please follow the announcements and updates on the conference website – https://meatindustry.com.ua
Registration is required at the link – https://forms.gle/ksfdAwGFnptzP3wv7
*Accommodation is not included in the participation fee and is to be provided by the participants themselves.
For participation, sponsorship, advertising, presentation, please contact the conference coordinators:
Sponsorship and participation
Agro Marketing Agency
Svyatoslav Tkachenko
+38(063)357 73 59
market@agromarketing.com.ua
Participation in the exhibition and partnership
Association of “Meat Industry”
Vladyslav Kachmar
+38(068)500 30 04
2023@meatindustry.com.ua
Interfax-Ukraine is a media partner
The number of pigs of the agricultural holding KSG Agro in August 2022 grew by 20% compared to the beginning of the year, to more than 60,000 heads from 50,000, according to a press release from the agrarian group.
At the same time, in the first half of 2022, the holding increased sales of live pigs by 7%, to 56,700 heads, compared with January-June last year (52,900 heads).
KSG Agro said that the increase in livestock was achieved by improving the quality of the herd due to the purchase of sows and boars, rejuvenating the livestock, as well as improving technologies and production processes.
The vertically integrated holding KSG Agro is engaged in pig breeding, as well as the production, storage, processing and sale of grains and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21,000 hectares.
The owner and board chairman of KSG Agro is Serhiy Kasianov.
