World meat industry news

Russia: Pork exports may grow to 200-220 thousand tons this year

  • 28 Jun 10:27

Russia: Pork exports may grow to 200-220 thousand tons this year The Russian Federation may increase pork exports this year to 200-220 thousand tons compared to 173 thousand tons in 2022. The Russian Federation may increase pork exports this year to 200-220 thousand tons against 173 thousand tons in 2022. This forecast was made by Yuri Kovalev, General Director of the National Union of Pork Producers, at the conference "Livestock & Feed Production" in Moscow. According to the presentation, in the first half of the year, pork exports will reach 116.6 thousand tons against 83.3 thousand tons last year (40% growth). In particular, supplies to Belarus will increase up to 41.2 thousand tons from 34.2 thousand tons a year. Read more...

Russian poultry groups increasingly rely on halal to boost exports

  • 28 Jun 10:24

Russian poultry groups increasingly rely on halal to boost exports Russia sees a steady growth in halal food exports and hopes it will spur poultry sales to foreign customers in the coming years. Russia’s largest meat producer,Cherkizovo Group, expects the country to get the green light this year to exportpoultryand livestock products to Malaysia where there is an apparent demand for halal products, the company’s press office said. In addition, the company hopes for a rise in halal exports to the CIS region, the Customs Union and the Middle East. In 2022, Russia’s halal food exports jumped by 24% compared with the previous year, Sergey Levin, Russian deputy agricultural minister, outlined during an. Read more...

Selection and breeding center for the Kalmyk breed of cattle to be created in Kalmykia

  • 26 Jun 10:03

Selection and breeding center for the Kalmyk breed of cattle to be created in Kalmykia Timur Gavaev, Acting Minister of Agriculture of the Republic, said that a stable increase in the number of farm animals was recorded in the region. The authorities of Kalmykia, with the support of scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), plan to create a selection and breeding center for the Kalmyk breed of cattle in the region. This was reported to journalists at the Ministry of Agriculture of the republic on Wednesday following a meeting with the director of the Caspian Agrarian Federal Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalya Tyutyuma. "In Kalmykia, they plan to create a selection and breeding center for the Kalmyk breed of cattle.. Read more...

Mongolia and Russia will create a free trade zone

  • 26 Jun 10:02

Mongolia and Russia will create a free trade zone It will be used to export Mongolian meat, cashmere, leather and wool without tariff and non-tariff barriers, said Gombojavyn Zandanshatar, Chairman of the State Great Khural of the Republic. A free trade zone will appear on the border of Mongolia and Russia for the export of Mongolian meat, cashmere, leather and wool without tariff and non-tariff barriers. This was announced on Friday by the Chairman of the State Great Khural (Parliament) of Mongolia Gombojavyn Zandanshatar at a briefing on the results of his visit to Russia. "Within the framework of cooperation with Russia, Mongolian export products, including meat, leather, wool and cashmere products, will be. Read more...

Russian animal health companies to ramp up production by 1.6 times

  • 26 Jun 09:53

Russian animal health companies to ramp up production by 1.6 times Leading Russian veterinary drug manufacturers will produce RUB 23.6 billion worth of products in 2023. This 1.6 times exceeds those in 2021, when production volume reached 14.5 billion rubles in monetary terms. This was announced by Maria Novikova, the Director of the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, at the academic conference “New legislation and scientific innovations in modern veterinary practice”, which took place within the “Cereals-Mixed Feed-Veterinary” exhibition held on June 22. According to her presentation, the leading Russian veterinary drug manufacturers produced RUB 14.5 billion worth of products in 2021. The. Read more...

Sergey Dankvert speaks up for digital certification in international trade

  • 23 Jun 07:16

Sergey Dankvert speaks up for digital certification in international trade Electronic certification should be used as part of the development of trade relations between countries to provide the framework for monitoring the safety of food product supplies. This was declared by Sergey Dankvert, head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, as he spoke at the round table on “Economic development of cooperation in the North-South international transport corridor: road transport as an important part of multimodal transportation". The round table was held within the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2023). “We aim to move away from paper health certificates, although they are still widely used in international trade. Regarding. Read more...

Russia needs beef from Kazakhstan

  • 23 Jun 07:14

Russia needs beef from Kazakhstan Against the backdrop of an acute shortage of its own volumes of beef, Russia is ready to increase imports of Kazakh beef. This was told to us by the Director General of the Russian National Union of Beef Producers (NSPG), a member of the Expert Council of the National Agrarian Agency Roman Kostyuk. The other day he returned from the International Agricultural Conference Lepsi 2023, which was held in the neighboring republic. There, the expert also spoke about the possibility of increasing the import of Kazakh supplies. According to his estimates, Russia is ready to buy up to 150 thousand tons of beef from this country annually, because. own production does not cover the. Read more...

Miratorg exported a record 160 thousand tons of meat in 2022

  • 23 Jun 07:12

Miratorg exported a record 160 thousand tons of meat in 2022 Agro-industrial holding Miratorg exported a record 160 thousand tons of meat in 2022, the company's profit from exports amounted to about $500 million. Viktor Linnik said this on Thursday in an interview with RBC TV channel as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “Last year we set a record, we exported 160,000 tons of meat, almost $500 million worth. This is a plan for us, but even in this turbulent time we managed to do it,” he said. Linnik noted that 60 thousand tons of meat were exported to China and the countries of Southeast Asia, 50 thousand tons to the CIS countries, "the rest - little by little to the countries of Europe. Read more...

The Philippines proposes to develop processing enterprises in the field of agro-industrial complex together with Russia

  • 22 Jun 11:02

The Philippines proposes to develop processing enterprises in the field of agro-industrial complex together with Russia Russian exporters of agricultural products visited the Philippines on a business mission. Filipino businessmen are interested not only in the supply of agricultural products, but also in the joint development of processing enterprises. Fifteen leading Russian companies producing agricultural products with the support of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Rosselkhoznadzor and the National Meat Association visited the Philippines on a business mission, reports Agroexport. A representative of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture was sent to the Republic of the Philippines two years ago, and this year a Russian trade mission was opened here, the agency said. These. Read more...

The Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on requirements for imported breeding material

  • 22 Jun 11:00

The Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on requirements for imported breeding material The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill specifying the procedure for issuing permits for the import of breeding products (material). The document was initiated by a group of deputies. The bill clarifies the procedure for importing breeding products, as well as the conditions for using semen and embryos of breeding animals for the purpose of their breeding. It is proposed to import pedigree products from countries that are not member states of the EAEU, subject to confirmation of its pedigree value in the presence of a permit for the import of pedigree products issued by the authority in the field of pedigree livestock breeding. Currently, there are no. Read more...