World meat industry news

Avian flu is heading to Europe

  • 6 Oct 10:14

Russia and Kazakhstan have been already hit by an influenza wave due do wild birds migration route to Europe. In the last couple of weeks, Russia and Kazakhstan have been confronted with several outbreaks of bird flu in both wild and domestic birds as the autumn migration in wild birds is crossing their territories. EU officials have warned poultry producers to step up surveillance against possible outbreaks of avian flu among wild and domestic birds. "EU countries are being urged to step up surveillance and biosafety measures to protect themselves against possible new outbreaks of bird flu this year," a report issued this week said. The disease is highly. Read more...

Murmansk Region opens gastronomy tourism routes

  • 6 Oct 09:59

One of the tasks of the Murmansk Region in this project is to make Arctic food available not only in the capital, but throughout the region, according to the governor. "We want to offer appropriate economic incentives to promoteArctic cuisine at restaurants in our regions and in other regions," he said. "Tourism is an important sector of the economy, but for the Murmansk Regionit is just a challenge as yet, which we have accepted, and I do not doubt we shall succeed in this task. <…> Presently, we actually launch the Arctic tourism and the Arctic cuisine project. <...> What tourists normally expect areemotions and, of course,. Read more...

Belagro 2020 expo kicks off in Minsk

  • 5 Oct 10:10

A solemn opening ceremony of the Belagro 2020 expo will be held in Minsk on 29 September, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. The exposition will be expanded by the exhibitions Belferma (featuring the latest achievements in cattle breeding) and Belprodukt (food products). “Taking part in the exhibitions will be 360 companies. 30 of them will showcase products of foreign producers from 13 countries: Belgium, the UK, Hungary, Germany, Israel, Italy, China, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, France, Switzerland, and Sweden,” the press service of the ministry said. Aleksandr Subbotin said that all countries subsidize their farmers to a. Read more...

Russia Main Investor in Belarusian Economy: Putin

  • 5 Oct 10:08

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia provides serious credit assistance to Belarus for developing new industries in this country,TASSreported. “We provide serious credit and financial assistance to Belarusian economy;these funds contribute to the creation of new industries and jobs in the Belarusian regions,” he said in a video message to the participants of the VII Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia. Putin stated that “Russia is the main investor in Belarusian economy.Russian companies account for almost half of all foreign direct investment in Belarus.” “More than 2,000 companies with Russian participation work in. Read more...

Russia plans to enter the top 10 world exporters of poultry meat

  • 2 Oct 10:02

According to the forecast of the National Union of Poultry Farmers (NSP), this year Russia may export 280 thousand tons of poultry products, which is 33% more than in 2019. Last year, our country took the fifth place in the world in the production of poultry meat and 17th in its export, said the general director of the union Sergei Lakhtyukhov during a joint seminar of the Agroexport center and the Russian Agricultural Bank. The strategic goal is to enter the top 10 largest world poultry meat suppliers, the head of the union noted. Now deliveries are open to more than 50 countries, and more than half of them potentially require the provision of a halal certificate. Read more...

Coronavirus is more persistent than other SARS viruses

  • 2 Oct 09:55

The Food Technology Institute from Brazil looked into the survival rates of 3 types of coronavirus on surfaces like packages or food. Following the find of the newcoronavirus on frozen chicken meat imported from Brazil in Chinarecently, Brazilian researchers looked deeper into the survival potential of Covid-19. All existing coronaviruses cause great concerns to the global population: SARS-CoV-1victimised 8,000 people for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) around 2002, and MERS-CoV, from Respiratory Syndrome in the Middle East in 2012, with more than 800 deaths. SARS-CoV-2already left almost 1 million death around the planet, according to the. Read more...

Russian poultry farmers want more leeway on coccidiostats

  • 2 Oct 09:54

Russian poultry producers have appealed to the Russian sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor to withdraw unjustified restrictions on coccidiostat use. The Russian National Meat Association and the Russian Union of Poultry Farmers have filed a joint letter to Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, asking that the existing sanitary regulations be adjusted and allow the use of coccidiostats – a group of drugs used for the treatment and prevention ofcoccidiosis– prior to slaughter. The Russian poultry producers argue that the current ban has undermined the average profitability in the sector for years. Zero-tolerance policy on coccidiostats. Read more...

Novosibirsk Region: the ban on beef export may last until spring

  • 1 Oct 10:42

The news portal Vesti Novosibirsk with reference to TASS reports that the lack of vaccination of cattle against FMD may become the basis for a long ban on the export of unprocessed beef from the Novosibirsk region. According to the regional veterinary office, restrictions may last until spring 2021, which meets the requirements of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Experts drew attention to the fact that we are talking about the export of raw meat: the products of its processing are not subject to restrictions. Rosselkhoznadzor changed the status of the Novosibirsk region, recognizing it as a zone free from foot and mouth disease without vaccination, but. Read more...

Meat production will also increase in 2020

  • 1 Oct 10:41

Russian milk and meat production in 2020 is expected to be higher than in the previous year. Growth is particularly strong for pork. As Russia's Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev announced in Moscow, milk production is expected to reach around 32 mill. t this year, which would be 740,000 t or 2% more than in 2019. At the same time, meat production is expected to increase by 453,000 t or around 3% to 15.6 mill. t live weight, the minister said. The Center for Agroanalytics, which is subordinate to the Agriculture Department, most recently estimated this year's production of meat of all species at the expected record level of 11.17 mill. t carcass weight. Read more...

How viruses shaped a new reality for Ukraine

  • 30 Sep 10:22

Market situations can differ from country to country; this becomes clear when listening to Oksana Yurchenko, president of the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders. Where Covid-19 led to supply chain problems in the US, Ukraine’s commercial production had a different experience. Long beforeAfrican Swine Fever(ASF) crossed the borders of Germany, the virus had already emerged in Ukraine. The country has been facing the virus since 2012 and learned the devastating consequences. In recent years, the country’s swine sector has been recovering bit by bit – then a new virus showed up: Covid-19. Oksana Yurchenko, president of the Association of. Read more...