According to the operative data of the Ministry of agriculture monitoring the price situation on food market, the average price of agricultural producers of the Russian Federation on 23.12.2016 on raw milk amounted to RUB 24,31/kg.

As noted in the message of Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation, the average consumer prices for 19.12.2016 made: on pasteurized milk – 51,45 RUB/kg (+ 0,4% over the week, + 8.3% from the beginning of the year); butter – 477,24 RUB/kg (+ 0,8%, + 19.4 per YTD); the cheese – 460,89 RUB/kg (+ 0.6% for the week, + 9.9% from the beginning of the year).

According to the results of weekly monitoring of milk yield and milk as at 19 December 2016 the daily milk yield was 39.8 thousand tons per day (3.2% more than in the same period of 2015). Sales of milk during the same period amounted to 37.5 thousand tons (3.9% more than in the same period of 2015).

According to operative data of the Federal customs service of Russia (excluding trade with the countries of EEU) in the current period 2016 (in 19.12.2016) compared to the same period in 2015, imports of cheese decreased by 23.6%, butter increased by 6.8%. Increased deliveries of dry milk from abroad, from 6.7 thousand tons in the same period of 2015 to 41.3 million tons in 2016 (countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Switzerland, and Turkey). The share of CIS countries in total imports of milk powder is not more than 16%, the report says the Federal agriculture Department.