Agriculture in Russia demonstrates high development rates in all key areas. The highest dynamics are observed in the food and processing industry segment. According to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, this year the food production index amounted to 104.3% compared to the same period last year. The beverage production index reached 101.9% and the tobacco product manufacturing index is 103.3%. High growth rates are recorded in the production of canned meat (+12.3%), processed and canned potatoes (+12.1%), meat (+11.4%), sunflower oil (+10%), meat and meat-containing semi-finished products (+8.4%), cheese (+5.8%). Such positive dynamics are driven by a. Read more...
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the new edition of the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation. The previous version of the document was valid from 2010. The doctrine provides for a change in the previously adopted methodology for calculating food security. To assess it, instead of the share of domestic production in total domestic consumption, an international indicator of self-sufficiency will be used. It includes not only the ratio of production to consumption, but also the compliance of products with the requirements of the EAEU technical regulation, as well as the calculation of the economic and. Read more...
With the ever increasing competition and the trend of healthy lifestyle, Russian meat processors can fill the unoccupied niche of functional meat products. These products have not only high nutritional value, but they also can improve consumer’s health and have a preventive effect on many diseases. Is this the “magic” food the modern consumers have been dreaming about? Marietta Aslanova, Doctor of Technical Science, Head of Functional and Social Food Technology Department of “Gorbatov” Food Systems Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, told us about the functional food market and the new developments in this. Read more...
Despite challenges company continues to grow. In 2015 McDonald's opened 59 new restaurants in Russia. Source: Reuters "We intend to fully localize production in Russia,” Khamzat Khasbulatov, president of McDonald's in Russia, told reporters. “It is not because of the sanctions, it was already a long-standing plan." Khasbulatov predicts that in two years the company will fully replace imported chicken meat and cattle with Russian analogues and will grow its potatoes in Russia by 2017. "Russia remains one of the most interesting areas for the investment of resources and the opening of new. Read more...
Sanctions against European food products are putting Russian farmers in the Kremlin's spotlight. Government grants to help farmers set up in business are growing. Yury Orlov from Mordovia runs a dairy farm. He has recently received a Russian governmentBeginning Farmergrant as a new farmer of 1.5 million rubles ($23,000). With this money, he has equipped a milking shed and purchased 15 cows. Yury is now planning to enter a competition for a grant as a “family farm" - worth between 3 and 7 million rubles ($47,000-$110,000), which would enable him to significantly increase capacity and production. Natalia Zvereva, director of regional social. Read more...
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