The annual growth in food prices in early May slowed to 6.6% from 7.6% in March, according to info from a meeting held by Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on price monitoring.
In particular, for the annual period as of May 4, 2021, price growth slowed down by one percentage point – to 6.6% from 7.6% in March 2021. Rosstat also reported a decrease in inflation in Russia: it fell to 0.6% in April from 0.7% in March. Annually, inflation dropped to 5.5% from 5.8% a month earlier.
Prices for fruits and vegetables increased by 1% in April, which is lower than the seasonal growth. The rise in prices for other food products (excluding.
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Supplies of Russian agricultural products and foodstuffs (excluding fishery products) to China increased by 17.6% in the first quarter of this year, according to Russia’s trade representative to China, Alexey Dakhnovsky.
“Despite the difficult epidemiological situation and the imposed quarantine restrictions, the supply of some Russian agricultural and food products not only did not decrease but continued to grow,”Dakhnovsky said on Tuesday at the international food fair ‘SIAL China 2021’ in Shanghai.
According to him, supplies of fats and oils increased significantly during the period by over 56% year-on-year.
Despite the.
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Food producers should earn money from exports, without causing damage to domestic consumers, said the head of government. The government has the means to ‘curb the appetites’ of those who want to cash in, he assured.
One of the reasons for the increase in prices for socially important products in Russia was the greed of some manufacturers and retail chains, said Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. He said this while delivering a report on the work of the government to the State Duma deputies.
‘It is important to say one more reason why prices are rising. This is the greed of individual producers and retail chains,’ the prime minister said.
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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture assumes that meat production will continue to increase until 2025. According to the Moscow agricultural department, total Russian meat production increased by 3 per cent to 15.6 million tonnes live weight last year, ranking the country fifth in the world in this respect.
By 2025, the volume is expected to increase by almost 6 per cent to 16.5 million tonnes. Pork production is likely to continue to be the driving force. At 8.9 per cent to 5.5 million tonnes live weight, this was by far the highest growth rate in 2020 and is expected to increase by a good 4 per cent this year.
ASF remains a risk factor
According to the chairman of.
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Last year, international sales of Russian agricultural produce exceeded foreign purchases, according to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
“The export volumes of the country’s agro-industrial complex totaled 271 billion rubles, topping the imports by some $1 billion,”the PM said during question-and-answer session with State Duma members.
He highlighted the crucial role played both by the imports phase-out and domestic enterprises in the process of implementing national infrastructure projects.
The state-backed program to phase out imports was launched in 2014, after relations between Russia and Western countries dramatically declined due.
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It is necessary to fix the way food markets operate and to ensure access to them for farmers, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he toured a farmers' market near Minsk on 14 May, BelTA has learned.
“For me, people are of paramount importance. I am from the countryside. I know what it means to grow something with your own hands and to be able to sell it. People should be able to freely sell their products and have an unobstructed access to the market,” the.
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Several new African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks have been recently registered in Russia, raising questions over the efficiency of the national veterinary services.
According to official figures by the Russian veterinary service Rosselhoznadzor, by mid-April 2021, Russia had registered 36ASFoutbreaks since the beginning of 2021. From those figures emerges a picture of a disease that has gained momentum since 2018, when only 56 outbreaks were reported in the country in the whole year.
Tighter control is needed
Pig farmers have called on Rosselhoznadzor to strengthen its control over the supply chain to ensureASFis kept out from the consumer tables..
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Ukraine's largest egg producer Avangard experienced a twofold decline in egg production due to continuing pressure from law enforcement agencies over the past year, the company's owner Oleg Bakhmatyuk told the local publication Interfax.
"We now produce 170 million eggs per month, while we used to produce 300 million, and in May [of 2020] we produced 350 million eggs, 170 million of which we exported. This month we will maybe export 20 million," he said in April.
Bakhmatyuk explained that the company used between US$60-70 million credit lines as deliveries can take a long time and the supplier needs to be granted a delay. "But thanks to the.
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The regions of Belarus are ready to offer investors land and best conditions for the development of dairy farming. Moreover, milk production is increasingly becoming a driver of agricultural growth. This was announced today in the Logoisk District, where they opened a new dairy complex of the Minsk Tractor Plant’s agricultural division. The farm will have 384 milking cows. They already give 20 liters of high quality milk per day. MTZ has already invested in the development of dairy production before, the complex in the Logoisk District is. Read more...
Minister of Agriculture of Russia Dmitry Patrushev discussed the development of mutual agricultural cooperation with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Géza Andreas von Geyr. Germany remains one of Russia's strategic partners in agriculture. The turnover of agricultural products exceeded 1.5 billion dollars last year. According to Dmitry Patrushev, Russia is interested in further exports increase. This will be facilitated, among other things, by active cooperation between the business communities of the two countries and the implementation of joint investment projects. The. Read more...
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