The State Food and Consumer Service launched a milk quality control project in 13 regions

The milk quality control project, within the framework of which the “Milk Module” was launched - software for automatically collecting the results of research on dairy raw materials - operates in 13 regions of the country, more than 170 milk market operators have already become its users.

This is stated in the message of the State Food and Consumer Service.

“As of the beginning of July, the Milk Module software operates in Vinnitsa, Poltava, Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Donetsk, Volyn, Sumy, Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Rivne, Kherson, Ternopil and Khmelnytsky regions. More than 170 operators of the milk market (farms for the production of milk and points of its purchase) have already become users of the "Milk Module". it is planned that a pilot project based on the Milk Module software will be implemented in each region,” the statement said.

“Milk Module” is an IT platform for the raw milk control program. Through the generation and further analysis and processing of laboratory test results, it facilitates the effective cooperation of market operators with laboratories and the competent authority.

Anatoly Vovnyuk, Deputy Chairman of the State Food and Consumer Service, noted at a meeting with members of the working group: “First of all, we need to get feedback from the users of the Milk Module. We need to hear what they have to say about this application. Undoubtedly, we can independently develop certain functionality that, in our opinion, would be available to users, but we will be happy to listen and include their wishes in the work. We have very ambitious plans: to launch the Milk Module by the end of the year not as a purely analytical program, but as a full-fledged tool”

As part of the first phase of the pilot project, which started back in April 2019 in four regions, various models for collecting and transporting raw milk samples were tested. From now on, each region will be able to join the “milk module” of the State Food and Consumer Service in a test mode.

Improvement of the functionality based on the results of the pilot project and further integration of the “Dairy Module” into the main information system of the State Food and Consumer Service is supported by Switzerland within the framework of the Swiss-Ukrainian program “Development of Trade with Higher Value Added in the Organic and Dairy Sectors of Ukraine” (QFTP), which is being implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) in partnership with SAFOSO AG (Switzerland).

As the State Statistics Service reported earlier, the production of milk and dairy products in Ukraine in 2020 decreased by 4.2% compared to 2019, to 9.26 million tons, while at agricultural enterprises it increased by 0.8%, to 2 .75 million tons, while in households it decreased by 6.2% to 6.50 million tons.

According to the agency, the production of milk and dairy products in Ukraine in 2021 will decrease by 4.2% compared to 2020, to 9.10 million tons, of which 2.79 million tons will be produced by enterprises, and the rest by households.

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