REUTERS
Quality requirements for Ukrainian dairy products were approved.
Ukrainian producers have been licensed to supply dairy products to Oman.
"Ukraine has expanded the sales market for own dairy products in the Gulf countries," the press service of Ukraine's State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection said.
The State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and the regulator of the Sultanate of Oman approved quality requirements for dairy products to be exported from Ukraine to the Sultanate of Oman," it said.
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As UNIAN reported, the Ukrainian Ministry for Agrarian Policy and Food Industry said that Ukraine was among the ten largest exporters of dairy products in 2018.
Milk production in Ukraine in 2017 totaled 10.3 million tonnes, which was 0.5% down on 2016, the country's State Statistics Service said.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Ukrainian milk producers increased exports of dairy products by 82.4% by the end of 2017 compared to 2016, when 109,200 tonnes of dairy products were exported to the amount of $158 million.