World meat industry news

Petelinka, Pava-Pava and Cherkizovo Premium win Product of the Year awards

  • 23 Nov 10:15

Cherkizovo Group’s products under the Petelinka, Pava-Pava and CherkizovoPremium brands came first in three categories at the annual Product of the Year awards. The accolades were presented at the 22ndProduct of the Year2020 Official Ceremony in Moscow. Cherkizovo Group, a regular at the event, won in three categories this year. Petelinka received the Eco-friendly Meat Product award in the Chicken Meat category for the second year running. The Pava-Pava brand repeated last year’s achievement by picking up best Healthy Food product in the Turkey Meat category. The CherkizovoPremium brand’s bacon celebrated a debut win in the Meat. Read more...

Russian chicken exports to China surge

  • 20 Nov 11:40

Steady demand for chicken meat, the availability of feed from an ample grain crop and growing imports of soybean meal will all support production growth in Russia in 2021. In 2020, exports increased 22% driven by entry into the Chinese market. Meanwhile, domestic consumption is forecast flat while difficult economic conditions continue and competition with pork intensifies. Steady demand for chicken meat during the Covid-triggered recession, availability of feed from the strong grain crop in Russia and growing imports of soybean meal will support marginal production growth to 4.725 mmt in 2021. The 2020 production forecast is revised to 4.715 mmt, which is 1%. Read more...

Food production increased by 4.3% in Russia

  • 20 Nov 11:38

Agriculture in Russia demonstrates high development rates in all key areas. The highest dynamics are observed in the food and processing industry segment. According to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, this year the food production index amounted to 104.3% compared to the same period last year. The beverage production index reached 101.9% and the tobacco product manufacturing index is 103.3%. High growth rates are recorded in the production of canned meat (+12.3%), processed and canned potatoes (+12.1%), meat (+11.4%), sunflower oil (+10%), meat and meat-containing semi-finished products (+8.4%), cheese (+5.8%). Such positive dynamics are driven by a. Read more...

Over 10 months, Russia produced 6.5 million tonnes of livestock and poultry meat

  • 19 Nov 12:52

Over 10 months, Russia produced 6.5 million tonnes of livestock and poultry meat.TASS reports that, according to Rosstat, the volume of meat production of all farms (except for poultry) for 10 months of 2020 increased by 11.4% year on year - up to 2.5 million tons. At the same time, the production of poultry meat in January-October decreased by 0.5% - to 4 million tons. The volume of production of semi-finished meat products during this period increased to 3.3 million tons (8.4%). Over 10 months, 2 million sausages were manufactured in Russia (+ 3.4% year-on-year) and 67 conventional cans of canned. Read more...

Russia is losing its position in the Vietnamese poultry meat market

  • 19 Nov 12:50

The information and analytical agency "IMIT", based on a report prepared for the three quarters of this year, reports that the volume of supplies of chicken meat from Russia to foreign markets for the considered period amounted 214.7 thousand tons, which is 56.7% (77.6 thousand tons) higher than the same indicator for the nine months of last year. In the structure of exports of poultry food products produced in Russia, the dominant positions were chicken legs, wings and whole carcasses of broilers. 52% of the total supply of goods of these categories (110.8 thousand tons) fell on China, where the share of chicken paws was 51%, and the share of chicken wings. Read more...

AI epidemic worsening in Russia and Kazakhstan

  • 18 Nov 10:33

Millions of birds have been culled in Russia and Kazakhstan after multiple outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the past weeks. As the epidemic enters new regions, millions more are at risk. Kazakhstan has lost 1.2 million birds at 3 industrial poultry farms, said Duisengaz Musin, member of the country’s Parliament, during a recent press conference. He added that this figure would be even higher if backyard farms are taken into account. In total, Kazakh poultry farms housed 46 million birds at the beginning of the epidemic, as estimated by Ruslan Sharipov, chairman of the Union of Poultry Farmers of Kazakhstan. So far, the virus has primarily. Read more...

Pork exports from Russia rise 80%

  • 18 Nov 10:01

Russia has managed to open new markets for its pork products, such as Vietnam, Hong Kong and Mongolia, despite the ongoing threat of ASF resurging in the Russian pig herd. For more than 10 years, Russia is fighting the disease and at some point, the damage created in the swine sector has transformed the country in an importer of pigmeat. However, starting 2020, Russian pork exports have rebound reaching 143,000 tonnes, which is 80% more than the same period in the previous year. According to the Russian Union of Pork Producers (RUPP) suggests that exports of pig meat could surpass 200,000 tonnes by the end of the year, up 45% on the year. The rise in exports also. Read more...

Will Russia Access The Japanese Poultry Industry Market?

  • 17 Nov 10:24

Russia is trying to resume its poultry exports to Japan.Russian experts believe that in addition to the high export potential of the Japanese market, exports to this country can help to produce more diverse products in the Russian poultry industry. Russian poultry producers are trying to export more poultry products with more added value. According to estimates, the country imported more than 571,000 tons of animal protein products worth more than $ 1.3 billion in 2019. Most of these imports came from Brazil, Thailand, the United States, Hungary, France, Turkey, Spain, Malaysia, Poland, and the Philippines. In 2019, many news networks reported that initial. Read more...

AKORT: Russian retailers restrain the growth of consumer prices

  • 17 Nov 10:23

The Association of Retail Companies (AKORT) said that Russian retailers, which are part of the industry association, will restrain the rise in prices for essential goods and do not expect their rise before the New Year holidays, reports TASS. All changes in food prices that have recently been observed in the consumer market should be perceived as seasonal fluctuations, say representatives of retail chains. AKORT notes that in the pricing policy, domestic retailers are guided by the purchasing power of the population, which has noticeably decreased during the economic crisis, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to AKORT, in October last year, the consumer price. Read more...

Russian Poultry Industry Enters The Philippines Market

  • 16 Nov 11:58

Russia has succeeded in exporting its chicken meat to the Philippines.According to published information, the first shipment exported by Russia to this country was only 27 tons. The export comes amid a dispute between Brazil and the Philippines over the possible contamination of Brazilian-made chicken meat with COVID-19, which is likely to be pursued through the World Trade Organization. Some experts believe that the Philippines’ announcement of the possibility of contamination of chicken meat produced in Brazil is due to the country’s efforts to replace the imports it needs with other countries. According to the agreement reached between the. Read more...