Analysis of the state and prospects of milk production and dairy products in Ukraine in the post-war period

Abstract

The indicators of recent years demonstrate stability and high results in milk production at agricultural enterprises. The relevance is confirmed by the fact that milk production and its optimization are key aspects of the economic development of the agricultural sector of Ukraine in the post-war period, because dairy farming is a system-forming branch of agriculture that opens up new opportunities for the formation of promising business development vectors. The purpose of the article is to analyse the problems and prospects of economic aspects of the efficiency of resource use and optimization of milk production in agricultural enterprises of Ukraine in the post-war period. The research used the following methods: induction and deduction, synthesis, theoretical generalization, statistical analysis, comparative analysis, modelling. The links of inconsistency between resources, production of dairy products and the capabilities of enterprises, state policy, the level, and norms of consumption of milk and dairy products by the population in the post-war period are studied. Accordingly, the dynamics of production, export, sales, stages of production, peculiarities of cooperation and import of basic dairy products were considered. A direct connection between the production and consumption of milk, the dependence of the demand and consumption of milk and dairy products on the level of total income of households has been established. Based on this, the work presents a full description of the dairy industry in Ukraine, the volume of milk production in the pre-war period and prospects for development in the post-war period. A systematic study of the market properties of various types of dairy products of Ukraine using SWOT and PEST analysis is given in general. In order to improve the state of the market of milk and dairy products of Ukraine, appropriate proposals have been formulated. The practical value of the work lies in the fact that its results can be used as a basis for the development of technologies for the use of milk production resources in the post-war period, as well as in the work of specialists in the agro-industrial and economic sectors