A few years ago in Russia, vegans and flexitarians would have to buy plant-based products in specialty stores, but as of recently, plant-based alternatives have crept into mainstream retailers and restaurant chains. Moscow-basedWelldonesaw an opportunity to create high-quality plant-based products for the increasing amount of vegan and flexitarians in Russia, and the company recently raised its first undisclosed round of funding. In a phone conversation last week Alexander Kiselev, the founder of Welldone, explained to me that the plant-based space in Russia is about five years behind compared to the U.S. There are a few players in the Russian plant-based space,. Read more...
In January 2021, Russian imports of dairy products appeared to be 10% lower compared to their level in 2020 for the same period and practically corresponded to the volume of imports in 2019. 577 thousand tons of dairy products worth USD 202.6 million (-25%) were imported. Such data is provided in the report by the National dairy Producers Union of Russia (Soyuzmoloko). A decline in supply was observed for all product categories, except for cheese. Figures from January 2021 show that the main external suppliers of dairy products to Russia are the Republic of Belarus (75%), New Zealand (8%), Argentina (5%), Uruguay (4%) and Kyrgyzstan (2%). Whereas the. Read more...
Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade left the government-inroduced price caps for socially important goods in force until June 29. The list includes frozen fish, meat, milk and dairy products, sugar, buckwheat and other goods. As noted by the agency, in the context of the negative impact of the pandemic on the economy, there are still risks of an increase in the prices for staples. The continuing regulation of prices is aimed at ensuring availability of food. Read more...
This year, for the first time, Russia became a partner country of the International Exhibition of Ready-made Food and Beverages Anuga-2021 – one of the most significant events in the food industry, which is traditionally held in Cologne (Germany). The event that has been held for more than a hundred years combines ten thematic fairs, which showcase various categories of food presented by leading manufacturers from all over the world. Organic products is to be a special section this year. The exhibition will also include cooking classes, lectures, training seminars and congresses with the participation of international analysts and food industry. Read more...
A mutated strain of the coronavirus previously forced countries across the globe to kill millions of farm animals, as people tried to stop the spread of the pandemic. Russia has registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine for animals, the agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor announced on Wednesday. The new vaccine, namedCarnivac-Cov,was developed by the Federal Centre for Animal Health, and showed no side effects during preliminary trials. "Dogs, cats, arctic foxes, mink, foxes, and other animals were involved in the clinical trials of Carnivac-Cov, which started in October of last year. The results of the tests allow us to conclude that the vaccine is. Read more...
Even in the face of the challenge of the new crown pneumoniaepidemic, China-Russia economic and trade cooperation will still show strong resilience in 2020, new growth points are constantly emerging in bilateral trade, and theperformance ofagricultural productsis particularly outstanding. Russia'sMinistry of Agriculturerecently released data show that in 2020 Russia's agriculturalexportsamounted to 30. 7 billion US dollars, up 20 percent over the previous year, exports of agricultural products totaled 79 million tons. Among them, theexport volumetoChinaincreased the most, reaching 4 billion US dollars, an increase of 26% over the previous year,. Read more...
Ukrainian agricultural products in 2020 gained access to the markets of 12 countries, 35 export certificates were agreed, and two EU audits were conducted. This was announced by the head of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection Vladislava Magaletskaya during a public report on the work of the department in 2020 on Wednesday, March 3. "We are talking about both the traditional foreign economic partners of Ukraine – the EU, China, the USA, India, and the markets underserved by Ukrainian exporters - Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Angola, etc.," the head of the State Consumer Service said. Magaletskaya noted that in 2020,. Read more...
The agency has prepared an analytical material in which it reports that the rise in food prices will cause the greatest resonance in the largest middle-income countries, whose residents spend most of the consumer basket on food.In addition to Russia, Bloomberg also included Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey and India in the list of these countries. As a response, the Ministry of Economic Development issued a message in which it calls Bloomberg analyst on food inflation in the Russian Federation “speculative”. The Russian Ministry of Agriculture also reacted with a statement. “There are no grounds for an abrupt increase in the cost of food products, while in. Read more...
Exports of Russian agricultural products rose 22.3% year-on-year as of March 21, amounting to over $6 billion, data from the Ministry of Agriculture showed. Grain supplies increased 1.7 times to $2.517 billion, while fish and seafood sales dropped by 28% to just $683 million. Deliveries of fat-and-oil products surged by 25.8%, rising to $1.287 billion. Statistics also showed that food exports decreased more than six percent to $605 million. Meanwhile, sales of meat and dairy products grew 17.1% to $205 million. Turkey was the major consumer of Russian agricultural products, increasing its imports this year by 46.8% to $991 million. At the moment, the country has. Read more...
A number of pandemics disrupted the poultry industry around the world during 2020 but hopes are that it will spring back into place again this year. The three major pandemics of avian influenza, African swine fever and coronavirus all affected the global poultry industry in 2020 especially in terms of imports and exports. First speaker of the event wasNan-Dirk Mulder, an agricultural economist with Rabobank, who discussed the global situation for the poultry industry with specific reference to what is happening in Europe. Mulder highlighted the global animal protein market prices from 2017 to 2020 which he said was always a good indicator of how the sectors were. Read more...
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