In January-July of 2020, the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Russia totaled 2.247 tln RUR in current prices, an increase of 3.3% compared with the figures in the same period last year, reported the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). It should be noted that for the first six months of 2020, the growth of production in the agricultural sector of Russia totaled 3%. In particular, in July 2020 the production figures in the agricultural sector increased by 4% compared with the same month last year — to 588.7 bln RUR. Also, Rosstat stressed that the reporting. Read more...
Farmers of Primorsky region in six months have increased the number of pigs by 70%. The growth was due to importof animals. "Compared to last year, the number of pigs increased by 70% - up to 150 thousand heads. The growth was due to new imports of animals after the foot and mouth disease epidemic, an increase in the number of livestock in biologically protected agricultural enterprises," the statement says. The press service of the regional government told TASS that regional enterprises provide the region with pork by 16% now. The regional Ministry of Agriculture specified that the companies "Mercy Trade" and "Primorsky Bacon" produced. Read more...
The prolonged demonstrations against the official results of Presidential elections in Belarus could disrupt food trade with Russia, Russian magazine Agroinvestor warned. Belarusian independent media reported strikes at some of Belarus’s largest factories, including the BelAZ truck plant in Zhodino, the Minsk Tractor Works, and others. The strikes are taking place exclusively within state-owned companies. This fact makes the poultry industry rather vulnerable, as the government operates most poultry farms and processing facilities in the country. However, so far, there were no reports regarding production halts at poultry farms or meat-processing. Read more...
Lamb consumption in Russia in the first half of the year decreased by 9.1%, to 56.4 thousand tons, according to the data of the National Union of Pig Breeders. This is the most notable drop in sales of all types of meat. Thus, sales of poultry meat over the same period decreased by 2%, to 2.4 million tons, beef - by 1.3%, to 755 thousand tons. Pork consumption increased by 5.2% to 1.93 million tons. Agrifood Strategies President Albert Davleev suggests that the decline in mutton sales was associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: about 95% of this type of meat is sold through markets and off-chain points of sale, which were closed in the first place. The expert says. Read more...
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Russia-based Agribusiness Holding Miratorg LLC's Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'B'. The Outlook is Stable. Fitch has simultaneously withdrawn all ratings for commercial reasons. The ratings reflect Miratorg's currently heightened leverage levels due to ongoing, largely debt-funded, capex expansion projects and high amount of guarantees provided for related parties' liabilities. This is balanced by the group's large scale, its strong market positions in Russia and a high degree of vertical integration across the value chain, which results in strong EBITDA margins. The. Read more...
The Kazakhstan egg industry is in troubled waters due to state aid ending, feed shortages, and the fall out of the Covid pandemic on its export markets. During the first six months of 2020, Kazakhstan produced 2.6 billion eggs, which is 5.6% less than last year, and the worst is still to come. By the end of 2020, the country’s egg industry could collapse, the Kazakh Egg Producers Association warned. The production could fall further from 4.5 billion in 2019 to 2 or 3 billion eggs in 2020, as small and medium-sized egg farms would be forced to cease operation, said Maxim Bozhko, chairman of the Egg Producers Association. Most countries in the Eurasia Economy. Read more...
The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain.Two cities in China said they had found traces of the coronavirus in imported frozen chicken wings from Brazil and on outer packaging of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp, raising fears that contaminated food shipments might cause a new outbreak. “People should not fear food, or food packaging or processing or delivery of food,” WHO head of emergencies programme Mike Ryan told a briefing in Geneva. “There is no evidence that food or the food chain is participating in transmission. Read more...
During the working trip the Minister of Agriculture of the Territory Vladimir Sitnikov and the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Directorate Viktor Fetisov held a meeting with representatives of the slaughterhouses of the Levokumsky and Neftekumsky regions. The main issues were the sale of mutton and the search for new export channels. Stavropol region produces 13 thousand tons of the product. The volume of supplies abroad is one thousand tons. This is done by 11 slaughter points. The meat is sent to Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the countries of the customs union. The Ministry of Agriculture noted that the capacity of the domestic market does not allow selling products. Read more...
For the first 6 months of 2020, the exports of Russian agricultural products exceeded 13 bln USD, up 18% compared to the same period year ago, declared the Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation, Viktoriya Abramchenko on August 20. “Vegetable oils and grains were the main drivers of agricultural export. Moreover, shipments of sugar and meat products grew significantly”, - she said. Grain was the key export commodity with the share of 27% in the overall structure of agricultural export. Russia exported 17.6 mln tonnes of grain over the reporting period, up 25%. “Record oilseeds production in 2019 allowed to increase the export of fat-and-oil products. Read more...
Since the beginning of 2020, inspectors of the Rosselkhoznadzor Office for the Novosibirsk Region have issued export consignments for pork and poultry meat with a total volume of 516 tons. The parties went to China and Mongolia. Thus, for the first time since 2017, the “Asian” direction has been resumed for Novosibirsk poultry factories and meat processing enterprises included in the Register of Exporters. According to the Rosselkhoznadzor, this was facilitated by the active purposeful work of the Service with exporting enterprises and the regular updating of information about participants in foreign economic activity. Currently, the Register of. Read more...
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