World meat industry news

Russian pig production has increased 1.3 times in the last 5 years

  • 15 Jul 11:56

The Russian pig industry is actively developing, raising investors' interest. Over the past 5 years, the industry's output has increased 1.3 times by 1.2 million tons. The level of self-sufficiency in 2019 reached 103%. The positive trend has continued this year: in January-March pig production from all categories of farms totaled 1.28 million tons, which is 11.3% or 130,600 tons more than for the same period last year. According to forecasts by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia,by 2025 production volume is expected to increase by at least 760,000 tons. The industry faces the important task oftransitioning from accelerated import substitution to. Read more...

Uzbekistan promotes smallholder farms to fight poverty

  • 15 Jul 11:54

President Sjavkat Mirzijojev of Uzbekistan has ordered the distribution of 50,000 live birds among the population to mitigate the negative impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Uzbekistan’s poorer citizens. The live birds will enable families to produce animal protein in their own backyard. In its fight against poverty, the government is embarking on a large-scale bailout programme, according to a statement posted on the government’s website. An estimated 450,000 households would see their incomes plummeting because of the pandemic, the President’s office said. This is further exacerbated by unemployment, which is currently on the. Read more...

Russia to increase meat exports to Asia by more than 50% in 2020

  • 14 Jul 10:40

Supplies of Russian pork, beef and offal to Asiacan grow by 60%, and poultry meat - by 54%. According to the optimistic scenario, supplies will grow by 80-100%, as forecaststhe National Rating Agency. Export will increase due to the expanding presence in the market of Vietnam and Asia as a whole: domestic meat production there suffers due to African swine fever. Last year China reduced pork production by more than. Read more...

More pork and poultry Russian enterprises to supply meat to Vietnam

  • 14 Jul 10:37

The Vietnamese side agreed to receive meat products from Russia under the guarantee of the Rosselkhoznadzor/ "The Vietnamese competent authority included in the list of Russian enterprises that have the right to supply meat products to the market of this country, four more companies (twopoultry meat producers and two pork producers)," the press service of the Russian department reports. Currently, 31 Ruddian meat companiessend. Read more...

Four more Russian companies granted right to supply meat to Vietnam

  • 13 Jul 09:33

To date, 31 domestic meat and meat product manufacturers are entitled to ship their products to Vietnam. Four more Russian companies acquired the right to supply meat to Vietnam and the list of suppliers has expanded to 31, the Russian veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday. "The competent authority of Vietnam included four companies (two poultry producers and two pork producers among them) into the list of Russian enterprises having the right to supply meat products to the market of this country. 31 domestic meat and meat product manufacturers are currently entitled to ship their products to Vietnam," the regulator. Read more...

Major Russian poultry producer up for sale

  • 13 Jul 09:31

Russia’s third-biggest poultry producer, agricultural holding Prioskolie plans to sell a part of it’s assets, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. Cherkizovo and CP Foods show interest. Several Russian and foreign companies expressed their interest in the takeover, including the country’s biggest meat producers Cherkizovo, Miratorg, and CP Foods. Although no details are available so far, the cost of the deal is expected to be Rub23 billion ($ 390 million), which means it could become the biggest M&A transaction in the Russian meat industry since 2015, when CP Foods acquired 2 major poultry farms in the country. In 2019, Prioskolie was ranked. Read more...

Livestock will be simplified for export

  • 10 Jul 08:46

The Ministry of Agriculture proposed amending the law on veterinary medicine by establishing veterinary control of enterprises exporting animal products outside the EAEU. According to WTO obligations, when exporting food products of animal origin, there are two ways to confirm the safety of products. The company has the right to do this independently from the veterinary services of the importing countries. But in this case, potential partners will have a reason to drag out negotiations, which "fundamentally contradicts the task set by the country's aim to increase export potential," the explanatory note to the document says. The second option is. Read more...

Russia:Pork export increased by 2.5 times

  • 10 Jul 08:45

In January-May 2020, the physical volume of exports of fresh and frozen pork grew by 2.5 times compared to last year, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) reports. According to the results of the six months of this year, Russia exported about 85 thousand tons of pig products (including export to the EAEU countries), an increase of almost 90% compared to last year, Yuri Kovalev, Director General of the National Pig Breeders Union (NSS), told. Such growth rates for the first half of 2020 became possible due to an increase in deliveries to Kazakhstan by 4.8 times, Mongolia – by 3 times and Vietnam – by 1.6 times. According to preliminary forecasts,. Read more...

Ukraine's animal inventory down

  • 9 Jul 09:59

From cattle to pigs, sheep, goats and poultry the country's livestock is declining. Ukrainian livestock is down this year on every sector, according to the State Statistics Service. Data compiled by the statisticians shows the cattle inventory in Ukraine as of June 1, 2020, amounted to 3.47 million animals, which is 6.6% less than on the same date in 2019. The pig herd has also dropped by 5.9%, to 5.97 million animals, whilst the number of sheep and goats has decreased by 6.3%, to 1.49 million animals. A similar situation was reported in poultry, an unusual decrease of 1.5% from 2019 to 231.12 million birds. Last year, cattle numbers in the country have. Read more...

Beef export from Russia increased 2.7 times

  • 9 Jul 09:58

This year Russia (from January 1 to June 28) exported 3.5 thousand tons of beef, which is 2.7 times more than in the same period last year (1.3 thousand tons), the Center for Agricultural Analytics reports. The cost of deliveries increased from $ 5.7 million to $ 15.8 million. According to preliminary estimates, beef production in Russia in 2020 may rise up to 1.641 million tons compared to 1.625 million tons in 2019, while imports of beef and beef offals are still expected to be at the. Read more...