World meat industry news

Small scale pig farms in Russia will be reshaped due to ASF

  • 26 Jan 10:31

Small scale pig farms in Russia will be reshaped due to ASF It has been proposed to reposition small scale pig farms in Russia to alternative types of livestock production in order to prevent new outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF). The work is already underway, Maksim Uvaidov, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia said in an interview with the Veterinary Medicine and Life. “Yes, this is one of the measures from the package, and some pig farms have already made the switch. The leader is the Novgorodskaya Oblast. In 2021, 490 pig farms in the Novgorodskaya Oblast already moved to alternative types of livestock production,” said the Deputy Minister. He also acknowledged the good work that 97 pig farms. Read more...

5 trends driving chicken buying behaviors

  • 26 Jan 10:30

5 trends driving chicken buying behaviors What lasting trends have emerged from all of the changes consumers have experienced the past 2 years?While the work-from-home revolution has caused big changes in the way consumers purchase, cook and eat chicken, those same consumers are also looking for products they deem healthier and more sustainable. Speaking at the Feed Strategy Conference during theInternational Production & Processing Expoin Atlanta on January 25, Chris DuBois, senior vice president, Americas protein practice leader atIRI, explained some of the trends driving growth in the chicken market. No antibiotics ever and organic drive dollar growth In 2021, the total chicken market. Read more...

RUSSIAN FOREIGN TRADE IN FIGURES

  • 25 Jan 11:34

RUSSIAN FOREIGN TRADE IN FIGURES The country is fairly open to foreign trade, which accounts for 46% of GDP (World Bank, 2020), despite strict laws and policies. Russia became a member of the WTO in 2012, is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which have established a free trade area, and is a member of the Eurasian Customs Union. Russia and Ukraine have abolished mutual trade preferences. The Eurasian Customs Union has signed an agreement with Vietnam and is negotiating free trade agreements with, for example, Iran, India, Egypt, Singapore and Serbia. Russia is the 16th exporter and 21st importer of goods in the world (WTO, 2020). It mainly exports hydrocarbons (more than 50% of. Read more...

Rosselkhoznadzor banned imports of meat and milk from Jordan due to foot and mouth disease

  • 25 Jan 11:29

Rosselkhoznadzor banned imports of meat and milk from Jordan due to foot and mouth disease From January 19, 2022, Rosselkhoznadzor is introducing a temporary ban on imports of animals and livestock products from Jordan. The worsening situation with regard to FMD in Jordan has triggered the decision. As a reminder, from January 12, 2022, Russia has imposed the same restrictions on importation of livestock products from Palestine following an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the country. In addition, from January 12 Russia has put a temporary ban on importing animals and livestock products from Kazakhstan. The government of Kazakhstan has confirmed a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Karagandinskaya Oblast. “New measures have been. Read more...

Russian scientists receive grant to improve cattle selection, breeding programs

  • 24 Jan 12:39

Russian scientists receive grant to improve cattle selection, breeding programs The team at the Laboratory of Genetics and DNA Technologies at Kostroma Agricultural Academy will receive 600,000 rubles (US$7,875.00) in grant funds as state support for young Russian scientists. The research will result in new ways of conducting cattle selection and breeding work at the enterprises of the Kostroma region based on genetic markers of cattle productivity. Young professionals during 2022-2023 will carry out scientific research on the topic: "The complex effect of polymorphism of somatotropin and thyroglobulin genes on the milk productivity of cattle in the Kostroma region." Breeding work is carried out in cooperation with the breeding farms. Read more...

Are we approaching peak poultry and meat consumption?

  • 24 Jan 10:38

Are we approaching peak poultry and meat consumption? Meat consumption is increasing in many countries worldwide, although it seems peak meat consumption has been reached in some. A recent study analysed 35 countries to determine which are increasing and which are decreasing consumption of all the major meats consumed from 2000 to 2019, including poultry, of course. Growing prosperity, disease outbreaks, natural disasters and consumer preferences are changing global meat consumption, which, globally, has quadrupled since 1961. The growing human population has encouraged the expansion of livestock, with 80 billion animals slaughtered annually to produce 340 million tonnes of meat for human consumption, notes the. Read more...

Russia overseas shipments of sausage experienced a three-fold increase

  • 24 Jan 10:29

Russia overseas shipments of sausage experienced a three-fold increase At the end of 2021, Russia exports of sausage products increased by value up to 36%, according to the report compiled by the Federal Center for the Promotion of Agricultural Exports of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia (FGBU "Agroexport"). From January 1 to December 26, 2021, the Russian manufacturers exported over $109 million worth of sausage products. In comparison to 2020, export volumes increased by 27% totaling 48 thousand tons. Last year, the exporting countries managed to significantly expand sales of Russian sausages. Russian sausages were shipped to 47 countries. The success was mainly due to new export markets, especially in. Read more...

A Chinese company will build a dairy plant in Tatarstan at 5.7 billion rubles

  • 24 Jan 10:28

A Chinese company will build a dairy plant in Tatarstan at 5.7 billion rubles The Chinese company JSC Sichuan Railway Investment modern development of agriculture will build a dairy plant in Tatarstan at 5.7 billion rubles. This was told by Deputy General Director of the organization, Mr. Wang Ge, during the final board of the Investment Development Agency of the Republic of Tatarstan, reported in the press service of the IDART. ‘The goal of the project is the construction of a milk processing plant with a processing capacity of 500 tons per day; sale of milk powder on the foreign market by creating modern international logistics of food products,’ notes the guest from the Republic of China. He also announced the total investment. Read more...

The State Duma will consider the draft bill on animal identification at its spring session

  • 21 Jan 10:28

The State Duma will consider the draft bill on animal identification at its spring session In an interview with the Veterinary Medicine and Life, Maksim Uvaidov, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia, said that the Russian State Duma included a draft bill on animal identification and registration in its preliminary legislative program for the spring session of 2022. “The draft bill was presented to the State Duma for consideration in November 2021, and it is included in the preliminary legislative program of the lower house for the spring session of 2022. Most likely, its consideration will begin in January,” said the Deputy Minister. It is planned that the new legislation will come into force on September 1, 2022, added Maksim Uvaidov.. Read more...

There are no problems with food in Belarus after the embargo with the EU - Igor Brylo

  • 21 Jan 10:27

There are no problems with food in Belarus after the embargo with the EU - Igor Brylo Belarus has no problems with food after the introduction of a ban on the supply of certain groups of such goods from the European Union. First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Igor Brylo announced this to journalists on Wednesday. ‘We have a lot more of raw materials than just enough. Today we have more than 400 names of hard and semi-hard cheeses,’ BelTA news agency quotes him as saying. ‘We produce about 250 thousand tons of such cheeses a year, and last year we imported 1.4 thousand tons, so the figures are incomparable, and it cannot be said that someone has lost something.’ According to him, there are no. Read more...