World meat industry news

Ministry of Industry and Trade: food sharing program will be supported at the state level

  • 22 Jul 11:10

Ministry of Industry and Trade: food sharing program will be supported at the state level To help the poor, the authorities are ready to develop a food-sharing program.The Ministry of Industry and Trade supports such a project, Izvestia was told in the ministry.In recent years, departments have been discussing the introduction of bank "food cards" for those in need.But the ministry considered that it was rational to develop the food-sharing program and the transfer of products with an expiring shelf life.Now such charity is unprofitable for retailers, since they have to pay VAT.And this is more expensive than the disposal of products, the Ministry of Industry and Trade explained. The Ministry of Industry and Trade supported the development. Read more...

The government expanded the list of unfriendly foreign states

  • 22 Jul 11:06

The government expanded the list of unfriendly foreign states The government has updated the list of foreign states that commit unfriendly actions against Russian diplomatic and consular missions abroad, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers told. The list includes Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia. The Decree was adopted to implement Presidential Decree No. 243 of April 23, 2021 “On the application of measures to influence (counter) unfriendly actions of foreign states.” The decree involves limiting up to a complete ban for unfriendly countries the ability to hire embassies, consulates and representative government agencies of workers from among persons located on the territory. Read more...

The program of Holsteinization of cattle is proposed to be adopted in Kazakhstan

  • 22 Jul 11:03

The program of Holsteinization of cattle is proposed to be adopted in Kazakhstan LLP "Kirova" in the Pavlodar region specializes in the production of milk.The farm has four farms (three with dairy cows and one with young animals), the total number of dairy cows is 2800. The milk yield is 26 liters per cow per day.In order to increase milk yield, the company started Holsteinization of cattle.The farm employees told AgroCaravan Moloko 2022 about this. “Our livestock is Simmental, but a year ago we started Holsteinization.That is, with the help of artificial insemination with Holstein seed, we improve the milk characteristics of animals.Now we have just begun to receive Holsteinized young animals, it is too early to talk about. Read more...

Tver region in the first half of the year increased meat production by 14.6%

  • 21 Jul 10:52

Tver region in the first half of the year increased meat production by 14.6% The production of livestock and poultry meat for slaughter in live weight in the Tver region in January-June 2022 amounted to 102.4 thousand tons, which is 14.6% more than in the same period last year, Tverstat reports. At the same time, milk production in the farms of the region amounted to 102.8 thousand tons (a decrease of 0.8%). During the reporting period, 54.4 million eggs were received in the Tver region (a decrease of 8.5%). Farms of all categories as of July 1 of the current year kept 84.4 thousand heads of cattle (a decrease of 7.1%), including cows - 38.5 thousand (a decrease of 6.7%); pigs - 772.8 thousand heads (decrease by 27.7%), sheep and goats -. Read more...

Cattle breeders are asked to finance domestic software

  • 21 Jul 10:50

Cattle breeders are asked to finance domestic software The Ministry of Agriculture offered large Russian agricultural companies to finance 20% of the cost of import substitution of the production software they need. At the same time, the developer companies will remain the copyright holders of the solutions. Sources in the market say that large agricultural holdings use their own IT solutions, are not too interested in supporting external contractors and are ready for this only if the state subsidizes the introduction of new software. On July 18, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Agriculture with representatives of the largest Russian livestock companies (EkoNiva, Rusmoloko, Tavros, Agropromkomplektatsiya, etc.), to. Read more...

China has become the main buyer of products from the Moscow region

  • 21 Jul 10:49

China has become the main buyer of products from the Moscow region Over the past years, the Moscow Region has been one of the leading regions of Russia in the supply of finished food products abroad and exports its goods to 70 countries of the world, The DairyNews was told in the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region “China became the main importer of agricultural products in the Moscow Region in the first half of 2022.Finished products worth a total of $153 million were delivered to this country,” said Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Georgy Filimonov. He clarified that the second place in terms of purchases of products from enterprises of the Moscow region in. Read more...

Retail trade turnover in Russia may grow by 2-2.5% in 2023

  • 21 Jul 10:44

Retail trade turnover in Russia may grow by 2-2.5% in 2023 Retail trade in Russia has every chance to overcome the crisis and reach a turnover growth of 2-2.5% in 2023, while in 2022 the decline in turnover may be 8-9%.Igor Karavaev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Association of Retail Companies (AKORT), announced this to TASS on the eve of the Trade Worker's Day. He noted that AKORT still expects a decrease in the entire retail turnover in 2022 within single digits - at the level of 8-9%. "Much has already been done and is being done to support businesses and consumers, so we expect that next year the market will go positive and show growth at the level of 2-2.5%," Karavaev said. All recent measures to. Read more...

Rosstat: weekly deflation accelerated to 0.17 percent

  • 21 Jul 10:42

Rosstat: weekly deflation accelerated to 0.17 percent Weekly deflation in Russia from July 9 to 15 accelerated to 0.17% after 0.03% a week earlier, since the beginning of the year, consumer prices rose by 11.41%, according to Rosstat. "For the period from July 9 to July 15, 2022, the consumer price index, according to Rosstat, amounted to 99.83%, from the beginning of July - 100.00%, from the beginning of the year - 111.41% (for reference: July 2021 - 100, 31%, since the beginning of the year - 104.51%)," the report says. According to the statistical agency, fruit and vegetable products fell in average by 3.4%, including beets - by 8.8%, potatoes - by 8.5%, cabbage - by 8%, bananas - 3.1%, tomatoes - 2.3%,. Read more...

A number of Russian and Belarusian manufacturers are asking for quotas for the import of amino acids

  • 21 Jul 10:40

A number of Russian and Belarusian manufacturers are asking for quotas for the import of amino acids Experts noted that the ban on the export of amino acids deprives Russian enterprises of the opportunity to sell excess products abroad, and the zeroing of import duties leads to an increase in the volume of imported products, which also affects Russian producers. The Association of Grain Deep Processing Enterprises initiated an open discussion on the problems of production and marketing of amino acids.Based on the results of the briefing, proposals from the Association and enterprises will be formed and sent to the relevant departments. Speakers at the meeting were Oleg Radin, President of the Soyuzkrakhmal Association;Alexander Petrov, General. Read more...

In Russia, the production of compound feed for poultry increased by 5% in five months

  • 20 Jul 10:11

In Russia, the production of compound feed for poultry increased by 5% in five months During the first five months of 2022 in Russia, the total production of compound feed for birds amounted to 5366.7 thousand tons. This is 5% more than in the same period last year. Such calculations are provided by SoyaNews, which analyzed the open data provided by Rosstat. The publication notes that the volume of production of compound feed for birds recorded in March at 1442.3 thousand tons is a record monthly value over the past two and a half years. This figure is 6.93% more than in March 2021. Earlier it was reported that based on an analysis of the average price of feed for cattle for April 2022, it turned out that this product increased in price by 14.2% over. Read more...