APK-Invest, currently the largest pork producer in the Ukraine, has reported the significant increase of pork production during the first half of this year.
According to the report revenue from product sales for the six months of this year increased by 27% compared to the same period of 2012. Thus, the volume of revenues amounted to UAH 545.4 mln (US$ 65.8mln) against UAH 428.6 mln (US$ 51.7 mln) in the past year. While net income compared to the same period in 2012 increased 27% (UAH97.3mln (US$ 11.7 mln)).
During the same period the company has slaughtered 204,000 pigs, which is 38% higher than in 2012. For the first six months of 2013 the production of chilled pork rose by 85% to 8.64 million tonnes of finished products on year-to-year comparison.
Due to the growth of volume of pork production and the livestock numbers at the breeding complexes of APK-Invest the company also increased its feed production by 34% compared to the first six months of the previous year to the level of 74.1 thousand tonnes.