With pork prices high and the number of pigs declining, APK-Invest, plans to increase its pig population by 75% to 1 million pigs. Based in Donetsk region, the company is vertically integrated β from growing grain to selling chilled pork. PigProgress reports that pig breeders are making profits again in Ukraine. The Holland-based news site reports: βIn 2017, Ukrainian pork prices increased between 38.1% and 46.1% in 2017, depending on the region and the types of cut.β