Russia’s economy ministry is proposing a number of measures like retail price cuts and restrictive export taxes on grain and sunflower seeds to tackle rising food inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Russian poultry products could be next on the list. Reutersreports that Russia's economy ministry will soon propose that the government impose an export tax on sunflower seeds from 1 July and a formula-based export tax on sunflower oil from 1 September, the minister said on Thursday. Russia has imposed several export taxes for grain, sunseeds among other measures since December in its battle to tame rising food inflation amid the coronavirus. Read more...
Belarus plans to increase export of meat products to $1 billion. Today, Russia is among the leaders in purchasing these products. It accounts for 60% of the exports. "Made in Belarus" – branded goods are popular in China as well. This country accounts for 12% of Belarusian exports of meat products. As for the domestic market, its needs are fully. Read more...
The Russian Union of Poultry Producers (NUPP) has issued a statement ensuring customers that poultry products on the grocery shelves are safe for consumers despite the rising avian influenza (AI) fears. In late February, Russia reported the first case of bird flu (H5N8) being passed from birds to humans. 7 workers at a poultry farm in Russia’s south were infected with the H5N8 strain in an outbreak dating back to December 2020. This incident is believed to the first confirmed case of H5N8 poultry-to-human transmission in the world. On 12 March, Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, raised concerns that the newAIstrain could mutate further,. Read more...
Belarus plans to increase its export of meat produce to $1 billion in 2021. Minsk is hosting the V Export forum "Meat Belarus". Last year, the export volumes of the Belarusian meat grew by 11% in natural units. The produce was delivered to 24 countries. Yearly, 132 kilograms of meat are produced in Belarus per capita (it is 36% more than the actual consumption). The development of the meat branch resulted from modernization. Read more...
The 5th Export Forum "Meat Belarus" starts today in Minsk. Specialists in the field of meat processing and poultry farming will discuss issues of production and quality improvement of meat products and expanding the geography of export supplies. Among the speakers are about 40 experts from Belarus, Russia, France, Poland and China. Also, "Meat Belarus" will name the best exporters of the industry based on the results. Read more...
Production of agricultural goods in Russia continued its upward trend in February 2021. According to the Russian Federal State Statistic Service's preliminary estimate, agricultural production volume amounted to 214.5 billion roubles. This is an increase of 10.5% compared to January and 0.6% compared to the same period in 2020. Production has also increased by 0.6% compared to the first two months of 2020, to 395.3 billion roubles. Livestock production was the key driver of the growth. The gross milk production amounted to 2.2 million tons (+0.9%) in January-February, due to increased dairy herd productivity in agricultural organisations (+3.5%) in particular.. Read more...
Ukrainian pig company KSG Agro has announced plans to build a breeding complex for 50,000 pigs, at an investment cost of €30 million, the company said in a statement late February. The new production complex will contain a breeding unit, farm, and feed mill. As explained by Sergey Kasyanov, chairman of KSG Agro, the parties have begun working on the roadmap for the project. Kasyanov said, “The project’s commercial potential is associated with the opportunity to export products, in particular, due to the geographical proximity to China and the absence ofAfrican Swine Feveroutbreaks in Kazakhstan.” KSG Аgro is one of the. Read more...
The volume of trade between Russia and theEuropean Uniondeclined by 21% last year to $219 billion, according to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko,RTinformed. He said during a round table titled ‘Russia-Europe: realities and prospects’ in the State Duma that Russia’s “Trade turnover with the European Union decreased in 2020, if you count the UK, by 21% compared to 2019.” Grushko added: “Although I recall that at the best times in 2013, this figure amounted to $417 billion, and in terms of weight in the EU’s foreign trade, Russia was in the top league.” Trade and business relations between Russia and. Read more...
McDonald’s fast food chain is launching a long-term program to support Russian farmers, the company said in a statement on Friday,TASSinformed. “McDonald’s is launching a long-term program to support Russian farmers. Under the program, five Russian farms cooperating with the Belaya Dacha Group will receive targeted grants for passing international certification and will be able to become McDonald’s suppliers,” according to the statement. Irina Korshunova, Senior Director for Sustainable Development of the company in Russia, said during the online conference that at the first stage, investments in the program will amount to about. Read more...
On March 16 and 17, the Minister of Agriculture of Russia Dmitry Patrushev held meetings with members of relevant committees of the State Duma. Dmitry Patrushev reported on agricultural sector regulation, state support measures, rural areas development, spring fieldwork progress, and other topical issues. Thus, approximately 287 billion roubles will be allocated for the development of the agricultural sector this year. In particular, 34.7 billion roubles will be allocated for rural development, which is approximately 1 billion roubles higher than last year. A total of 118 social and engineering infrastructure projects and almost two thousand beautification projects are. Read more...
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