World meat industry news

Rosselkhoznadzor to simplify launch of new veterinary medicines

  • 18 Apr 10:15

Rosselkhoznadzor to simplify launch of new veterinary medicines Russia is planning to simplify the procedure for the introduction of new veterinary drugs to the market. Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor Konstantin Savenkov announced in an interview with Yulia Melano, lead editor of Veterinary Medicine and Life, that Rosselkhoznadzor offers measures to facilitate national authorization procedure for veterinary medicines. “We aim to change the algorithm of the authorization procedure for Russian manufacturers of veterinary medicines. We understand the weaknesses that they have pointed out, and have looked through all regulatory documentation. This involves reduction of processing time and relaxation of requirements. We have prepared. Read more...

Ministry of Agriculture: the agro-industrial complex reoriented to work in the new conditions

  • 15 Apr 10:16

Ministry of Agriculture: the agro-industrial complex reoriented to work in the new conditions The Russian agro-industrial complex was able to build work in the new conditions and reorient itself, there is no panic in the industry, TASS reported with reference to Deputy Minister of Agriculture Elena Fastova. In her opinion, agricultural producers are the most optimistic of all industries. “The agribusiness sector very quickly found how and what to replace, and focused as much as possible not on coming and saying that everything is bad, but on requests for targeted support. And we helped them as much as possible, did not interfere, and they themselves did a lot and reoriented their production,” said the Deputy Minister. In particular, according. Read more...

The Russians were given a forecast on meat prices

  • 15 Apr 10:12

The Russians were given a forecast on meat prices The head of the executive committee of the meat association Yushin predicted a rise in meat prices in Russia by 20% The head of the executive committee of the National Meat Association, Sergei Yushin, gave the Russians a forecast for meat prices in 2022 in light of the sanctions imposed by the West. Henotedin an interview with Sputnik radio, that the meat market in Russia does not depend much on imports, but a 20 percent increase in cost is possible due to the general rise in food prices in the world. The expert noted that due to sanctions pressure, there are difficulties with logistics, the cost of transportation by sea is increasing, since several leading. Read more...

Russia’s EU Borders & Trade Compared With Its Asian Borders & Trade

  • 15 Apr 10:09

Russia’s EU Borders & Trade Compared With Its Asian Borders & Trade Russia’s Non-EU Borders Are 4.5 Times Longer, And With Moscow – Friendly Nations as the Russian Belt and Road heads to Asia. Here’s a simple, if slightly variable statistic. With the European Union – and Ukraine – cutting off Russia’s land supply chains, the total length of that now heavily sanctioned border extends for approximately 3,606km.Here’s another statistic – Russia’s land border with non-EU/Ukraine countries extends for 16,254km, or about 4.5 times the distance. For every kilometre of border Russia has had barred to the West, it has 4.5km to replace it to the East. These basic statistics will redraw. Read more...

Global organisations urge coordinated action on food security

  • 14 Apr 10:51

Global organisations urge coordinated action on food security The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN World Food Program and World Trade Organization on Wednesday called for urgent, coordinated action on food security, and appealed to countries to avoid banning food or fertiliser exports,reported Reuters. In a joint statement, the leaders of the four institutions warned that the Ukrainian crisiswas adding to existing pressures from the COVID-19 crisis, climate change and increased fragility and conflict, threatening millions of people worldwide. Sharply higher prices for staples and supply shortages were fueling pressure on households, they said. The threat is greatest to the poorest countries, but vulnerability. Read more...

Russia’s Sberbank to sell 44% stake in Croatian agri-food group Fortenova

  • 14 Apr 10:41

Russia’s Sberbank to sell 44% stake in Croatian agri-food group Fortenova Russia’s state-owned Sberbank will soon no longer be the largest shareholder in Fortenova Group, the Croatian food, agriculture and retail business previously trading as Agrokor. Fortenova, which emerged under a new name in 2019from the restructuring of Agrokor, said Sberbank has signed an agreement with investment company Indotek in Hungary for the sale of its 44% stake in the agri-food group. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals in “several markets”, Fortenova said in a statement posted on its website. No financial details were provided. Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, has been sanctioned by the US over Ukrainian crisis. It. Read more...

Russia explains how West wants to destroy its economy

  • 14 Apr 10:39

Russia explains how West wants to destroy its economy Attempts have been made to isolate the country in financial, trade, transport, and humanitarian spheres, Andrey Belousov says. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov said on Wednesday that Western countries are trying to isolate Russia as much as possible from the world economy. “They literally want to pull Russia out of world economic relations, thereby launching the processes of degradation and disintegration of our economic system,”Belousov said during a speech in the Federation Council. “In fact, there were attempts to organize a global blockade of Russia, consisting, schematically, of four rings – financial,. Read more...

Putin Brings Russia’s Arctic, Northern Sea Passage Projects Forward

  • 14 Apr 10:38

Putin Brings Russia’s Arctic, Northern Sea Passage Projects Forward Commits US$18 billion to construction of the Northern Sea Passage, the Northern Latitudinal Railway, and supporting transportation infrastructure and shipping. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been in the Russian Arctic the past few days discussing outstanding Arctic projects in hand. TheArctic Council, an inter-governmental institution including Russia along with Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States, suspended operations in the wake of the Ukraine conflict. Russia has been holding its ownInternational Arctic Foruminstead in Moscow. Russia launched its first Arctika-M space satellite to monitor Arctic weather and. Read more...

Diagnosis for Russia – Food Security

  • 13 Apr 10:14

Diagnosis for Russia –  Food Security Last week, Vladimir Putin held a meeting to support the domestic agro-industrial complex, at which he made a number of extremely important statements. “The key task for the government, heads of regions, and enterprises is to preserve and support business activity in the Russian agro-industrial complex so that our farmers, fisheries, and food producers in general open new enterprises, create new jobs, and increase the output, first of all, of those groups of goods that we are still partly forced to buy abroad,- said Putin. In short, the tasks have been set and, as they say, get to work, comrades! The first wave of import substitution Let me remind you that. Read more...

Armenia is hit with poultry, feed shortages

  • 13 Apr 10:11

Armenia is hit with poultry, feed shortages The Ukrainian crisishas left the Armenian market in short supply of broiler meat, while local poultry farmers struggle to find a replacement for Ukrainian feedstuff.This is what Sergey Stepanyan, Chairman of the Union of Poultry Breeders of Armenia, told local publication, Armenian News. Stepanyan estimated that before the crisis, 25-30% of feedstuff was imported from Ukraine, including soybean, corn, and sunflower meal. The rest was purchased from Russia and a few other countries. Now deliveries from Ukraine are completely suspended, Stepanyan said, adding that this was primarily associated with supply disruptions as Ukraine ports on the Black Sea. Read more...