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Russia and Belarus will create domestic vaccines for livestock

  • 1 Jul 11:58

Russia and Belarus will create domestic vaccines for livestock Russia and Belarus need to jointly create domestic vaccines for livestock and poultry, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Zayats told reporters. “There is a topic on the replacement of vaccines, today it is necessary to get away from imported vaccines in poultry farming, pig breeding, cattle breeding. We have unique enterprises in the Republic of Belarus: Belvitunipharm and the Vyshelessky Institute, in Russia there are also very interesting scientific enterprises that could in close cooperation to ensure import substitution, to provide what we lack today," said Zayats on the sidelines of the IX Forum of the Regions of Belarus and Russia. According to him,. Read more...

Prices for eggs and pork continued to decline in Russia

  • 1 Jul 11:56

Prices for eggs and pork continued to decline in Russia For the week from June 18 to June 24 of this year, the average price for chicken eggs in Russia decreased by 0.5%. Thus, compared with the level of the beginning of the year, products have already fallen in price by 13.86%, follows from the data of Rosstat. The cost of pork also continued to decline, over the past week its average cost has decreased by 0.4%, while compared to the level of the beginning of the year, products remain more expensive by 0.64%. During the same period, powdered milk formulas for baby food fell by 0.6%, while by January 2022 they are still 16.79% more expensive. At the same time, the price of margarine increased by 0.7% over the last week. Read more...

Russia abundantly self-sufficient in basic food

  • 1 Jul 11:55

Russia abundantly self-sufficient in basic food Today, Russia provides itself with the main types of food, and even stores its surplus. According to the Government, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke about this at yesterday's meeting of the body. He noted that the demand for the export of agricultural products and raw materials from our country is growing in the world. The Head of Government named cereals, sunflower oil, sugar, meat and fish products as examples. He also confirmed the words of President Vladimir Putin at the BRICS Plus video conference that Russia is a significant and responsible participant in the global food market. The last time the event was held on June 25 this year. Its main topics were. Read more...

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation announced a decrease in agricultural production in 2022

  • 1 Jul 11:54

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation announced a decrease in agricultural production in 2022 The new goals of the state program for the development of agriculture in Russia suggest a decrease in agricultural production in 2022 compared to 2020 by 0.7%, and an increase of 0.9% in food production is also planned. This was stated by the Minister of Agriculture of the country Dmitry Patrushev. "On the planned indicators of the program in the current year. Further, 2020, and not 2017, is taken as the base year. In accordance with this, the state program provides for the achievement of an index of agricultural production at the level of 99.3%. Moreover, the composition of the goals has changed: for example, the planned indicator has been set in food production to. Read more...

Imports to Russia began to recover

  • 30 Jun 11:38

Imports to Russia began to recover Deliveries of imported goods to Russia have moved away from the minimum values ​​of a fall of 50% by January and February 2022, but so far remain low - minus 40% by the beginning of the year. Investment imports are especially low, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov at the RUIE congress. “In general, we understand that there is a rather deep gap, and mainly, probably, consumer imports are recovering, and the imports that we primarily need: intermediate or investment, here we see that the recovery is much more difficult,”. Read more...

Russia to supply animal products to Nigeria

  • 30 Jun 11:37

Russia to supply animal products to Nigeria Russia has agreed with Nigeria on veterinary certificates for the import of fish, meat and dairy products into the African country, the Rosselkhoznadzor reported. We are talking about sausages and other finished products, as well as milk, sour-milk products, canned food and fresh fish in its purest form. The service signed an agreement with the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD). Deliveries, in fact, will be of a humanitarian nature, since due to the low standard of living, all the above-mentioned Russian products are of great interest to the importer. The service clarified that companies that are potential exporters of products before. Read more...

Agricultural production growth in Russia slowed down to 2.1% in May

  • 30 Jun 11:35

Agricultural production growth in Russia slowed down to 2.1% in May Agricultural production in Russia in January-May 2022 increased by 2.3% compared to the same period last year, in May it increased by 2.1% compared to May last year, according to the operational report of Rosstat. In April of this year, the indicator increased by 3.2% in annual terms. The volume of agricultural production in May in current prices, according to preliminary estimates, amounted to 488.1 billion rubles, in January-May - 1.779 trillion rubles. In 2021, agricultural production decreased by 0.9% compared to the previous year. At the end of May, the number of cattle in all types of farms in the Russian Federation amounted to 18.3 million heads, having. Read more...

Meat production in Russia in January-May increased by 7.1%

  • 30 Jun 11:34

Meat production in Russia in January-May increased by 7.1% Meat production in the Russian Federation in January-May 2022 increased by 7.1% compared to the same period last year and reached 1.3 million tons, including 1.2 million tons of pork. This is stated in the materials of Rosstat. "Meat of cattle, pork, lamb, goat meat, horse meat and other animals in May 2022 produced 274.9 thousand tons, which is more than in May 2021 and April 2022, by 6.1% and by 1 2%, respectively. Production in January-May 2022 increased by 7.1% compared to January-May 2021, amounting to 1.3 million tons," the ministry said. According to Rosstat, the production of steam, chilled or chilled pork in May amounted to 252.4 thousand tons, which is. Read more...

The head of the meat association announced an increase in chicken production in Russia by 8%

  • 29 Jun 10:10

The head of the meat association announced an increase in chicken production in Russia by 8% The situation with the cost of chicken production is now more stable than in 2021. There are no problems with shipment from poultry farms on the market, and production volumes increased by 8% over the year. This was reported to Gazeta.Ru by the head of the National Meat Association, Sergei Yushin. “Now the cost of production has stabilized, since the beginning of 2022, prices for various types of chicken meat have increased by less than 10% compared to last year. At present, the situation in terms of production costs is more stable than in 2021. Plus, in 2022 we expect a record harvest of grain crops, including wheat. So feed prices may stabilize even more in. Read more...

The program of sustainable rural development until 2035 will be presented to the government of the Russian Federation this year

  • 29 Jun 10:08

The program of sustainable rural development until 2035 will be presented to the government of the Russian Federation this year The draft program for the sustainable development of rural areas in Russia until 2035 will be presented to the Russian government by the end of this year.The new program should replace the outdated version adopted for the period until 2030, Zhanna Ustimenko, deputy director of the department for rural development of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, said Tuesday at a meeting of the council of the Siberian Agreement Interregional Association (MAAS) for agriculture. "Now we have a strategy for the sustainable development of rural areas until 2030. This strategy is outdated, and therefore an updated draft of this strategy has been prepared. It is. Read more...