Russia’s largest pork producer, Miratorg, has reported an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) at one of its production sites.Reutersreports that the outbreak was reported at a site in Belgorod province in central Russia.
African swine fever is spread partly by wild boars and is highly contagious among pigs, but is harmless to humans.
The company said it has taken all measures to localise the outbreak.
Last month,Miratorg reported a similar outbreak at another.
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Export of cattle meat to non-CIS countries in September 2021 amounted to 2.6 thousand tons, which is higher than last year's figure by + 56% (+0.9 thousand tons). The main growth (+0.7 thousand tons) was due to China (+ 68% y-o-y). Unexpectedly, Morocco took the third place among export destinations, where Russia did not supply meat at.
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Russia Baltic Pork Invest, a subsidiary of CP Foods in Russia, considers building a 5th pig farm in the Nizhny Novgorod region in Central Russia.
The company has already built 2 pig farms in the region designed for 180,000 head of pigs each and currently has 2 farms of a similar design under construction. The region’s agricultural minister Nikolai Denisov now explained that a pig farm similar to those already built in the region is planned to be constructed in 2024-2025.
In addition, RBPI has recently bought a grain storage in Nizhny Novgorod region with a capacity of 130,000 tonnes of grain. The grain storage capacities are expanded to meet RBPI’s.
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Meat and meat products have always been among the Russian consumers’ favorite types of foods. Due to the pandemic, the year 2020 was a turning point in terms of distribution of consumer spending: the share of expenditures on services dropped significantly, while household expenditures on food went up under the influence of growth in household food consumption.
The analysis suggests that, in 2020, when the majority of consumers switched to remote work because of the pandemic, production of meat and convenience meat products went up, which is associated with an increase in home consumption. In the first three years of the analyzed period, there is a slight decrease.
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Director of Dairy Intelligence Agency (DIA) Mikhail Mishchenko said that by the end of 2022, the decline of the Russian population, according to a recent forecast, will be about 1 million people. According to the expert, this indicates that the consumption of milk and dairy products in the country will not grow, reports The DairyNews from the VII expert forum "Dairy Belarus".
‘The red line in the figure is the official forecast of the population dynamics of the Russian Federation, and the green line is the updated data of last week. By the end of 2022, the population will decrease by 1 million people. This suggests that consumption will not.
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Russia’s biggest meat producer, agricultural holding Cherkizovo, is expanding its poultry production capacity and is looking to increase exports.
In 2021,Cherkizovoexpects to grow poultry production by 3-5% compared to the previous year, Maxim Zudin, chairman of Cherkizovo’s poultry business, said during a press conference in early October.
Production growth is also anticipated in 2022, he added. In 2020, Cherkizovo boosted poultry meat production and sales up by 5% compared to the previous year to 695,000 tonnes. He added that the additional production volume is destined for the domestic and export markets, particularly China, the UAE, and neighboring countries.
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Sergey Mikhailov, Cherkizovo Group’sCEO, has chaired the first meeting ofthe Committee onFood Policy, anew body ofthe Russian Union ofIndustrialists andEntrepreneurs (RSPP). The meeting was attended byAlexander Shokhin, RSPP President, Oksana Luth, Deputy Minister ofAgriculture, Viktor Evtukhov, Deputy Minister ofIndustry andTrade, leaders ofRussia’slargest companies from the agricultural sector andallied industries, anddelegates ofmajor industry associations.
Moscow hosted the first meeting ofRSPP’sCommittee onFood Policy. Inhis welcome speech,RSPP President Alexander Shokhinstressed the need for the Committee toaddress avariety ofsystemic issues.
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On October 22, Dmitry Patrushev, the Minister of Agriculture of Russia, and Borut Pahor, the President of the Republic of Slovenia, held a working meeting in Ljubljana. The sides discussed the strengthening of bilateral cooperation.
The Minister noted that there is an active political dialogue between the countries, which covers a wide range of areas of cooperation and international issues. He stressed that bilateral trade relations have good potential despite certain restrictive measures between the European Union and Russia.
The action plan to strengthen cooperation in the agricultural sector, signed at the meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and.
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According to Mikhail Mishchenko, General Director of Dairy Intelligence Agency, today Altai region, which is traditionally a cheese region, has become a risky zone. Producing a lot of cheese, the region has very small population, and the product is exported to central Russia, where it is no longer needed, said the expert at the forum “Dairy Belarus” in Minsk.
‘Altai region is a very risky area. It has always been a cheese region, but over the past three years, the growth of cheese production there has slowed down significantly. Altai region, producing a lot of cheese, has very small population. Its cheese is exported to central Russia, where it is no.
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The National Union of Milk Producers (“Soyuzmoloko”) notes a serious slowdown in the growth of commercial milk production, Russian mediainformed.
“Over the past years, we have grown by an average of 1 million tons, or 4-5% per year. But this year we expect an increase under a good development scenario of no more than 1%, and, most likely, it will be 0.5-0. 7% or about 150 thousand tons of commercial milk only,” Alexei Voronin, director of the analytics department of the union, said.
According to Rosstat, the production of raw milk in Russia is declining. “In the commodity sector, we expect a slight increase, but this increase will not.
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