World meat industry news

ISHIDA SOLUTION DELIVERS IMPROVED SPEED, ACCURACY AND QUALITY FOR STICKY CHICKEN PIECES

  • 25 Feb 09:59

The move from manual weighing to an automated solution from Ishida Europe has enabled one of Russia’s largest producers of chicken products to greatly improve throughput, accuracy and overall product quality for its ranges of BBQ marinated chicken and boneless chicken pieces. The 12-head Ishida Fresh Food Weigher (FFW) at Bogorodsky Delicatessen factory in the Schelkovsky District (Moscow Region) is weighing boneless chicken drumsticks, thighs and fillets for packing into both bags and plastic pots, handling up to two tons of product every hour with minimal giveaway. The FFW has been specifically designed for these types of wet and sticky products. The. Read more...

ANOTHER MEAT PROCESSING PLANT HAS BEEN LAUNCHED IN TUVA

  • 25 Feb 09:58

One more production company became a member of Tuva’s meat cluster. A new meat processing plant with the production capacity of 300 tonnes of meat per year has been successfully certified for serial production in Dzun-Khemchiksky district, one of the leading Republic’s districts in livestock population. It has been built in late 2016 via public and private partnership by the private entrepreneur from Chadan city Urana Oorzhak who as part of the governor’s project “One Village – One Product” has been awarded a grant of 15 mln roubles by the Head of the Republic. The meat processing plant includes facilities for slaughtering,. Read more...

Agricultural trade between Russia and Azerbaijan has increased by 1.5 times in five years

  • 24 Feb 09:58

Mutual food trade between Russia and Azerbaijan rose by 6% to 1.3 billion dollars in 2020. The turnover has increased by approximately 1.5 times in five years. The development of bilateral relations in agriculture was the topic of a meeting of the Russian-Azerbaijani working group on Agricultural cooperation, held in the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia. Sergey Levin and Elchin Zeinalov, the Deputy Ministers of Agriculture of the two countries and co-chairs of the working group, chaired the session. Azerbaijan is one of the top ten buyers of domestic agricultural products. Agricultural exports to the republic increased by 12% to 698 million dollars last year.. Read more...

THE FIRST ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE FOOD PRODUCERS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN RUSSIA

  • 24 Feb 09:56

The founders of the Greenwise company (Russian producer of plant-based meat substitutes) established the first in Russia and CIS Association of Alternative Food Producers (AAFP). AAFP is a non-profit organization that brings together producers and developers of animal-based product substitutes. “In the spring of 2020, we decided to establish AAFP in response to the rapidly growing market of plant-based substitutes which is still young and requires support”, said Artiom Ponomariov, the Head of AAFP. According to the plan of the founders, this organization should bring together like-minded individuals for an optimal development of the plant-based. Read more...

MEAT A NEW VECTOR OF RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL EXPORT

  • 20 Feb 10:49

Although Russian market shows a slowdown of consumer prices of meat and meat products which is largely related to the drop of the population’s incomes, Russian pork supply to foreign markets has doubled in the last nine months. This information was provided by Yuriy Kovaliov, Head of the National Union of Pig Breeders. Access to foreign markets According to the Sectoral Expertise Centre of Rosselkhozbank, in 2020, the export volume of meat and meat products increased from 149 mln dollars to 336 mln dollars. Pork export increased four times (up to 85 mln dollars), while beef export increased three times (up to 16 mln dollars). Regarding the countries that import. Read more...

Agricultural goods trade between Russia and Serbia increased by 7%

  • 20 Feb 10:47

Agricultural products trade between Russia and Serbia increased by 7% to 516 million dollars. Meanwhile, Russian exports to the country rose by 25% to 112 million dollars. The co-chairmen of the Russian-Serbian Working Group on Agriculture Sergey Levin, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia, and Bogdan Igic, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy of the Republic of Serbia, discussed the development of agricultural cooperation between the two countries. Business representatives from the two countries also took part in the event. Russia is committed to further expanding mutual trade. Currently, the countries discuss. Read more...

Cherkizovo stops poultry export to China after Covid scandal

  • 19 Feb 10:17

Russia’s largest poultry producer, Cherkizovo, has suspended poultry exports to china after a product package the company supplied to the country tested positive for the Covid-19 genome, the company said in a statement on its website. Cherkizovo Group said they intended to launch a comprehensive investigation to pinpoint when the virus landed on the shipping packaging in the long logistics process. “The Covid-19 genome was identified during the inspection of external shipping packaging of frozen products at a Chinese port several months after these products entered the logistics chain. No traces of the virus were detected in the poultry product,”. Read more...

How did Russian meat exports increase 55% in 2020?

  • 19 Feb 10:16

Russia exported more than 500,000 tons of meat in 2020, which is 55% more than in 2019, according to the "Agroexport" center under the Ministry of Agriculture. Data on deliveries to theEAEU countries are taken into account for January-October 2020, the report specifies. In particular, shipments of poultry meat increased by 41% to 285,000 tons and in terms of value by 32%, to $419 million. Turkey meat was exported for $13 million, 2.1 times the value of 2019.Pork exportgrew 1.9 fold, to 187,000 tons and value increased twofold, to $324 million. Fresh and chilled carcasses and halves ($70 million) accounted for approximately 22% of shipments, while frozen offal. Read more...

Bashkir beef producers supplanted competitors in the local baby food market

  • 18 Feb 11:11

In two years, the share of local beef supplies for baby food has increased by 12 times, and import has decreased to zero. According to the head of the Office of Veterinary Medicine of Bashkortostan Azat Ziganshin, in the 2018-2019 academic year, the share of republican beef producers was 7%, other Russian producers - 83%, and 10% was imports. In the 2019-2020 academic year, the situation changed radically - the share of republican production amounted to 77%, other subjects of the Russian Federation - 23%, and there were no imports at all. This year, the trend has continued to increase. Beef of republican production, used in children's and educational. Read more...

The pedigree livestock farming market will be developed in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union – Kazakhstan Majilis approved the law

  • 18 Feb 11:10

​IA Sputnik.kzwrites about this.It is expected that after the adoption of the law, the pedigree breeding work will be optimized and the competitiveness of Kazakh products will increase, as well as the development and implementation of innovative technologies in the field of pedigree breeding, genomic breeding, a unified procedure for coordination and analytical support of pedigree breeding work in the field of pedigree livestock farming. Deputies of the Majilis of Kazakhstan have ratified an agreement on measures to unify pedigree breeding work with agricultural animals within the EAEU. Sputnik emphasizes that work on the agreement began in 2014 within the framework. Read more...