World meat industry news

The magazine "Meat Technologies" with reference to the monitoring data of the information and analytical agency "IMIT" reports that at the end of 2020 Russia imported 570.1 thousand tons of meat products – 18.8% less than in 2019.

In the structure of meat exports, 57.9% falls on beef and by-products of cattle, 40% – on poultry, 2.1% – on pork. At the same time, 57.2% of the goods of these categories came from far abroad, and 42.8% – from the EAEU countries. The TOP-3 foreign suppliers include Belarus with a share of 40.9%, Brazil (24.7%) and Paraguay (14.1%).

By types of meat, imports in physical terms were distributed as follows. The volume of poultry (chicken, turkey and ducks) imported from far abroad amounted to 93.6 thousand tons (+ 6.8% to the same indicator for 2019). At the same time, poultry meat imports from the EAEU countries decreased by 3.3% to 135.3 thousand tons.

Excluding data on trade within the Customs Union, the volume of imports of chilled and frozen pork, pork fat and pork offal amounted to 8.6 thousand tons and decreased in comparison with 2019 by 79.2 thousand tons (-90.2%). The import of these categories of goods from the EAEU countries decreased to 2.8 thousand tons (-1.7%).

Last year, the volume of imports of beef and by-products of cattle from the far abroad, according to monitoring by IMIT, decreased in comparison with 2019 by 45.7 thousand tons (-16.8%) – to 225.8 thousand tons. Imports of these types of livestock products from the EAEU countries decreased by 3.9% over the year, to 106.6 thousand tons.