Current Development of Meat-Processing Industry in Ukraine: Tendencies, Problems and Strategies for Solution

This article describes the current state of all meat-processing companies in Ukraine by using
such indexes as the main measures for it: number of employees involved in this particular industry
and whole processing industry, number of companies in an industry etc. An author suggests to
study self-sufficiency of main products as a result of activity of meat-processing companies in
domestic market and a dynamics of trade balance by different meat types as a result/ success on
international market. The given analysis pay attention to main problems in the industry: negative
trade balance, lack of production in strategic spheres, higher prices of imported goods compared to
cheaper national product. A structure of export was compared to its import to identify most
unbalanced categories in home market. An analysis of geographical structure of export/import
operations showed a disproportion that can bring to constant negative transformation of meatprocessing
industry. A number of strategies to overcome these problems is proposed.