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The Nenets Autonomous Region plans to supply venison and other deer products to Asian countries and to the domestic market, the region’s Deputy Governor Tatiana Logvinenko told TASS.

Earlier, the promising market was Europe, including Finland.

"We are focusing on Asia, since the European markets have been closed," the official said. "We have been working closely with Asia, and with the domestic market. Anyway, we continue to observe the processing standards. We are keeping the high, European, quality, hoping those markets will reopen anyway."

The region satisfies fully the local market and is able to send products to other markets. "We have certified the production facilities and will develop them," the deputy governor said. "Under projects from the Russian Ministry for Development of the Far East and Arctic, we have been organizing facilities to process skins and an additional facility to process meat."

In the current year, the region has produced 1,300 tonnes of venison, where 100 tonnes will be processed in the Yamalo-Nenets Region within the year. The Nenets Region will also build up processing facilities. "In the next production season, when the processing plant has new freezers, we plan to receive from suppliers about one thousand tonnes of meat," the regional government’s press service quoted Head of the Nenets Region’s department of natural resources, Albert Chabdarov, as saying.