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
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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...
Exports of Russian agricultural products have increased by 28.1 percent in the first two months of 2021 against the same period a year ago, amounting to $4.51 billion, the Russian Agricultural Ministry reports. Foreign sales of grains rose 86.4 percent to $1.916 billion, while exports of fat-and-oil products saw a modest growth of 9.2 percent to $787 million, according to the ministry. Exports of meat and dairy products grew by 32.8 percent to $154 million. Meanwhile, sales of fish and seafood dropped 27.2 percent to $521 million. Exports of the food and processing industry also saw a decrease of 5.1 percent to $394 million. The list of top consumers. Read more...
Rising prices for food and other items stem from the current situation worldwide, but the Russian government has been able to curb this trend domestically, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. Earlier, the Central Bank reported that inflationary expectations of the population in April rose to 11.9%. When asked what can be behind those fears and how well-founded they are, the Kremlin press secretary recalled that this is chiefly the government's purview to deal with such issues. But he noted that there are "certain global trends associated with the price hikes on food and other products." "You know that these global. Read more...
Pork consumption is expected to grow in Russia by another 2-3% in 2021. This was announced by the general director of the National Union of Pig Breeders, Yuri Kovalev. One of the main reasons for the growth is that pork production will continue to grow in 2021. “According to the forecast, in 2021 pork production in carcass weight will grow 3-4%, which is about 150 thousand tons. This will happen due to the investments already made, since the animals are fattening. This is a continuation of a trend that has been mentioned many times. Last year there was an increase in production, this year there will be as well, and it is also expected in 2022-2023. Of course, provided. Read more...
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