In 2019, ten veterinary service centers will operate in Ukraine, said Valery Lototsky, head of the development of the veterinary department of the Consulting Center of the Association of Milk Producers (APM).

Today in Ukraine there are already eight veterinary service centers that service more than 70 farms in Cherkasy, Rivne, Khmelnitsky, Poltava, Chernihiv regions and the southern region of the country. Very soon, two more innovative veterinary support centers will join them, which will open in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. It is planned that the centers will be inaugurated in April 2019, said Valery Lototsky.

The opening of veterinary service centers in the east of the country became possible after receiving a grant as part of an agrarian and rural development program funded by the United States Agency (USAID).

This project will expand the number of veterinary support centers for farms in Donetsk, Lugansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kharkov regions. For information, veterinary service centers were created to service cattle of dairy farms on a regular basis. The very first center was opened in Cherkasy region in 2015.