World meat industry news

Turkey refuses to support anti-Russian sanctions

  • 28 Mar 09:55

Turkey refuses to support anti-Russian sanctions Turkey is not going to support anti-Russian sanctions, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. According to him, the authorities won't allow their citizens to freeze without energy sources from Russia, TASS reports. Almost half of the natural gas that Turkey uses comes from Russia. Together with Russian partners, Turkey is building the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, Recep Tayyip Erdogan recalled. The authorities are obliged to fulfill all their obligations to the country's 85 million people population, the president stressed. Ankara has repeatedly said that it is not going to join the sanctions, because they are damaging the Turkish economy. Erdogan also. Read more...

No truffles, no bow ties

  • 25 Mar 12:03

No truffles, no bow ties List of European sanctions against. Read more...

Russian pig breeders got a chance to enter the Chinese market

  • 25 Mar 11:26

Russian pig breeders got a chance to enter the Chinese market Russian pig breeders have hope to enter the Chinese market. According to the head of the National Union of Pig Breeders Yuri Kovalev, the chances for Russia have increased dramatically after China agreed on the principle of regionalization of African swine fever (ASF) for France. Prior to this, China opposed regionalization. That is why the Chinese market has not yet been opened to Russian manufacturers. If an outbreak of ASF was found in a country, China completely suspended pork imports. So, for example, deliveries from Germany were banned when an outbreak of ASF was detected there. The first good news came at the end of last year - in December, China signed. Read more...

EUROPEANS PROTEST AGAINST FOOD SHORTAGES CAUSED BY ANTI-RUSSIAN SANCTIONS

  • 25 Mar 11:25

EUROPEANS PROTEST AGAINST FOOD SHORTAGES CAUSED BY ANTI-RUSSIAN SANCTIONS Europeans are facing a food crisis. Since the European market depends on supplies from Russia, store shelves are getting empty and energy prices are skyrocketing, the MIR TV channel reports. Many Europeans oppose the current situation. Thousands of protesters are taking to the streets in Spain and in Italy. They are joined by farmers, fishermen, and many others. The protesters demand support from the government for the agricultural sector or they want the ministers to resign. Spanish farmers blocked the central streets of Madrid with their tractors. The crows is chanting: "If the field does not produce, the city does not eat." Almost no day goes by without. Read more...

Food Over Feed’: Ukrainian crisis Highlights Need for Dietary Change

  • 25 Mar 11:19

Food Over Feed’: Ukrainian crisis Highlights Need for Dietary Change Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the growing need for food system change. Over the past four weeks, thelarge portions of the world were cut off from Ukrainian and Russian wheat and corn. Wheat prices have since climbed to an all-time high, and livestock producers⁠—who rely on these crops to feed their animals⁠—are contributing to food insecurity by competing for supplies needed for human consumption. The lack of access to affordable wheat and corn exacerbates food insecurity in many countries in the global south that depend on grain imports to feed their populations. If the crisis continues, it could send us spiraling into a global food crisis, prompting. Read more...

Rosselkhoznadzor considers buying veterinary medicines from India and China

  • 25 Mar 11:04

Rosselkhoznadzor considers buying veterinary medicines from India and China Animal health companies from India and China are being evaluated as potential suppliers of veterinary medicines to Russia, the Rosselkhoznadzor’s press service cited the service’s head Sergey Dankvert as saying in a statement made at the meeting of the Public Council. “In the course of the discussion held with the representatives of “Opora Russia” on supply of veterinary medicines, Sergey Dankvert noted that animal health companies from India and China are being evaluated as potential suppliers of animal health products,” the service reports. India and China are also seen as potential suppliers of raw materials necessary for. Read more...

Livestock production increased in January-February 2022

  • 24 Mar 10:43

Livestock production increased in January-February 2022 The fastest growth in terms of production in Russia is shown by the pig and poultry industries, the Ministry of Agriculture said. The total production of livestock and poultry enterprises has reached 2 million tons in live weight, half of which is poultry. In the first two months of 2022, production volumes by industry reached the following figures: cattle - 163.5 thousand tons (+5% compared to the same period in 2021); pigs - 790.3 thousand tons (+5.3% compared to the same period in 2021); sheep and goats - 3 thousand tons (+ 12.3% compared to the same period in 2021); poultry - 1.03 million tons (+9.7% compared to the same period in 2021). The. Read more...

Miratorg will increase the production of poultry meat

  • 24 Mar 10:41

Miratorg will increase the production of poultry meat Miratorg, a leading investor in the agro-industrial complex of Russia, will produce 178 thousand tons of poultry meat in live weight in 2022, which is 20.3% more than in 2021. 100% availability of own hatching eggs allows not to adjust the production program. Miratorg has implemented a systematic transition to full self-sufficiency in hatching eggs and full staffing of the parent poultry flock, which made it possible to eliminate the dependence of the poultry business on the import of genetic material, reduce biological risks and increase egg quality indicators. The company invested 339.8 million rubles in the expansion project of the high-tech hatchery, which increased. Read more...

Rosstat: weekly inflation in Russia slowed to 1.93%

  • 24 Mar 10:39

Rosstat: weekly inflation in Russia slowed to 1.93% Inflation in Russia for the period from March 12 to March 18, 2022 amounted to 1.93%, follows from Rosstat data. A week earlier, inflation in Russia was at the level of 2.09%. Since the beginning of March, consumer prices have increased by 5.38%, since the beginning of the year - by 7.67%. In annual terms, inflation as of March 18, 2022 (according to calculations using average daily data for this and last year for similar dates) was 14.41%. During the reporting period, according to Rosstat, in the category of food products, the prices for margarine grew most noticeably - by 2.8%, chocolates - by 2.6%, wheat flour - by 2.5%, beef, pasta, fruit and canned berries for baby. Read more...

Project on import substitution of breeding chicken eggs will increase food security

  • 24 Mar 10:38

Project on import substitution of breeding chicken eggs will increase food security The Governor of the Moscow Region Andrey Vorobyov, at a meeting with agricultural producers that took place the other day in Kashira, spoke about a new breeding breeder of meat breeds of chickens, unique for the region, opened in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky District. Until recently, poultry farms were forced to buy hatching eggs in Western countries, but soon their needs for breeding material will be completely covered by a reproducer near Moscow. Now, more than ever, the question has become relevant: what comes first: the chicken or the egg? There are hundreds of poultry processing enterprises in the Moscow region. But before neatly packed chicken carcasses, legs or breasts. Read more...