World meat industry news

Russia plans to raise import tax hatching eggs

  • 8 Apr 10:43

The Russian government rolled out plans to subject hatching eggs to a 5% import tax starting 1 January 2022. A further raise of 15% is set for 2023. The measure intends to promote and protect the domestic production of hatching eggs. Russia is struggling with an acute shortage of hatching eggs, a group of producers told during the government meeting with the Russian Agricultural Minister Dmitry Patrushev. Import restrictions introduced after the outbreak of highly pathogenicavian influenza(AI) stripped dozens of poultry farms from imported hatching eggs. It is estimated that the share of companies relying on imported hatching eggs in Russia is close to 20%. The price per. Read more...

Unlocking the potential of Kyrgyzstan’s livestock sector

  • 7 Apr 12:06

Agriculture is the leading employment sector in Kyrgyzstan and it boasts 9.1 million hectares of pasture, but its beef and dairy sectors have languished since it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 – Azis Kyrgyzbaev explains why. As part of his presentation at theEuroTier 2021 Digital Conference, Azis Kyrgyzbaev, the Executive Director of the Association of Livestock Farmers of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, told delegates that international demand for Kyrgyzstan’s beef and dairy products saw a dramatic rise in 2020. But despite growing demand from its neighbors, Kyrgyzstan’s livestock sector records low productivity levels: average annual. Read more...

Pork exports almost double in 2020

  • 7 Apr 11:59

Russia has gone from being a major global importer of pork to a globally significant exporter. The Danish Agriculture & Food Council (L&F) reported that Russian pork exports increased by 92 720 t, or 86.0%, to 200 580 t last year compared to 2019. This made Russia the world's seventh-largest exporter of the product, and according to the Russian government, global sales are set to increase further. In the year under review, exports to Vietnam in particular picked up mightily, increasing almost fivefold to 63 470 t. The Asian country had been struggling to recover from the export crisis. The Asian country had an increased need for imports after the outbreak. Read more...

Unique livestock complex has started working in Tajikistan

  • 6 Apr 11:32

President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon opened a unique livestock complex in Java, Khatlon region, which has no analogues in Central Asia. He works according to European standards. Cattle are raised here. Eight modern meat breeds from Europe were imported. Now there are 1.5 thousand head. But the capacity of the complex will increase the number of livestock by three times. According to European standards, each bull gains a weight of 1.5 kg daily. "Now the weighing process is underway. Each animal has a tag in its ears. Modern technologies are now reading out and transmitting information to a computer. Automatically, the gained weight goes to the database, ". Read more...

Cattle exports from Georgia country continue to grow

  • 6 Apr 11:31

For the second year in a row, cattle exports from Georgia have been growing markedly. In January-February 2021, growth compared to the same period of 2020 year amounted to 31% - in this period of 2020 year cattle exports in value terms amounted to $2, 5 million, while in 2021 there were exported at $3,2 million. In turn, in 2020, the growth of cattle exports compared to the same period in 2019 increased by 24, 2% and amounted to $27, 8 million. 12,104 Mt of live cattle were exported, while in 2019 only 11,821 Mt. The main export markets for cattle from Georgia country in 2021 were Azerbaijan and Iraq - in particular, cattle exports to Azerbaijan in value terms were. Read more...

More beef to be produced in Kazakhstan

  • 5 Apr 10:34

The Kazakhstan Ministry of Agriculture reported that two enterprises out of nine projects have already been launched. So, in the North Kazakhstan region production with a capacity of 20 thousand Mt per year valued at 5 billion tenge was opened. And meat production was modernized in East Kazakhstan region, in which 65 million tenge was invested. The capacity of the enterprise was expanded by 3 thousand Mt of meat products per year. Due to their start, 130 jobs were created. The remaining seven facilities are planned to be opened in 2021-2023, 1.1 thousand people will be provided with work. According to the agency, a meat processing plant totaling to 5.1 billion tenge is. Read more...

The list of Russian establishments producing livestock products entitled to export to Azerbaijan has been increased

  • 5 Apr 10:33

The Food Security Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, on the basis of guarantees submitted by the Russia VPSS/Rosselkhoznadzor, granted the right to export animal origin products to another 16 Russian establishments: three meat processing; three fodder producers; five livestock storage enterprises. Currently, 897 Russian establishments have the right to export controlled goods to. Read more...

Welldone Aims to Reach Price Parity With Meat in Russia

  • 2 Apr 11:39

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...

Russia decreases dairy imports by 10% in January 2021

  • 2 Apr 11:37

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...

Government-inroduced price caps for socially important goods remain in force in Belarus

  • 1 Apr 11:29

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...