World meat industry news

PAVA-PAVA ENTERS CHARCUTERIE MARKET

  • 15 Jun 11:20

Trading Company Cherkizovo has started selling Pava-Pava turkey charcuteries. The brand's expansion into the new segment comes as a response to customer demands. Over the year, this category has been showing a double-digit growth in Russia. The first Pava-Pava charcuteries were delivered to federal retail chains this week. Their range currently consists of three products– hot dogs, Mramornaya ham, and Nezhnoye fillet, all made from 100% turkey meat (breasts and thighs) with high protein and low fat content. More is in the pipeline. Pava-Pava products have been manufactured since 2017 by Tambov Turkey, an equal-stake joint venture between Cherkizovo Group. Read more...

Booming Airline Business: Flying Pigs To China In 747 Jumbo Jets

  • 15 Jun 11:16

Measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus amplified those swine shortages and accelerated attempts to boost the population of domestic herds. The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on commercial aviation, but Alexey Isaykin's cargo carrier has been fully loaded. Volga-Dnepr Group has flown more than 3,000 breeding pigs to China from France this year. The animals -- transported 6,450 miles (10,400 kilometers) in wooden crates in the hold of a Boeing 747 cargo plane -- are being used to restore local livestock levels to help mitigate shortages in the world's largest pork market after an outbreak of African swine fever decimated China's hog herds. Measures. Read more...

“German-Russian Agrarian and Political Dialogue” highlights the prospects for the national agro-industrial complexes

  • 11 Jun 10:11

The regular meeting of the German-Russian Agrarian-Political Dialogue Project Council featured the Deputy Minister’s of Agriculture Sergei Levin report affirming that cooperation between the two countries in the agricultural sector remains much fruitful. The event was also attended by the Parliamentary Secretary of State under the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture of the Federal Republic of Germany Uwe Fayler, representatives of the Committee of the Federation Council on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management of the Russian Federation, the State Duma Committee on Agriculture, the German Embassy in Moscow, the German Peasant Union and. Read more...

Russia’s withdrawal from WTO unreasonable, says minister

  • 11 Jun 10:11

Russia is now able to protect the interests of domestic enterprises, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov stressed. It is unreasonable for Russia to withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO) now, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said addressing the State Duma’s deputies on Wednesday. "It took us very long, almost 16 years, to enter the organization. All expected maximum benefits and results. It is very challenging to calculate the result in terms of value. <…> Unfortunately, amid the current situation in the world, hardly anybody takes notice of the WTO and [countries] assume preferential measures. We also protect our. Read more...

Number of Working Enterprises in Moscow up to 54% as Restrictions Lifted

  • 10 Jun 10:47

The number of working enterprises in Moscow rose to 54% after part of restrictive measures imposed for prevention of the coronavirus infection spread were lifted,Evotorsaid in its research, obtained byTASS. The data of Evotor online cash registers were used for the analysis – over 650,000 devices all across Russia. “Last week Moscow became the driver of small and mid-sized businesses growth. Non-food trade was allowed in the capital starting June 1 at the second stage of easing restrictions and the services sector partially resumed work. As a result, Moscow’s small business started to revive. The number of working enterprises rose to 54% from the. Read more...

Russia wants to cut import-dependence breeding stock

  • 10 Jun 10:42

Russia must gradually start decreasing its dependency on imported breeding stock, Russian deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko stated recently. To make things happen a new programme titled ‘Establishing a national competitive meat chicken crossbreed for growing broilers’, was adopted. “Our main priority is guaranteeing food security in the main agricultural sectors. Meeting the demand of our producers with seeding and breeding material is an important part of that job,” Abramchenko explained. “Unfortunately we see a strong import-dependence in these fields. For example, in the broiler industry, we import around 98% of the. Read more...

Russia: Pork production saw double-digit growth in first trimester

  • 9 Jun 11:32

Pork production in the first four months of 2020 saw an increase of 11.3% over the same period in 2019. From January-April 2020, the production of pigs in agricultural organizations amounted to 1.5 million tons (live weight slaughter), which is 11.3% or 150,000 tons more than the same period last year. The main growth was attributed to agricultural producers of Kursk, Tambov, Belgorod, Voronezh, Pskov, Orel regions, Republics of Bashkortostan and Mordovia. The key factors that contributed to the positive development of pig production are the formation of a modern breeding base and the. Read more...

Russian meat producers are catching up rapidly with cutting-edge factories

  • 9 Jun 11:29

Today Russia is one of the world’s most attractive markets for food production. Tremendously aided by the Russian government through billion-dollar investments and market foreclosure, businesses have modernized their facilities to a large extent in the past years. Today, Russian companies are among the most innovative producers in the world. The Russian meat industry has established new, cutting-edge factories which are among the leading global players. Success recipe no. 1: Automation and digitization The recipe for success of Russia’s leading companies: They take advantage of automating the entire value chain so they are able to boost production in no. Read more...

CHERKIZOVO GROUP TOPS RUSSIA’S MEAT PRODUCER RANKING AGAIN

  • 8 Jun 11:47

Cherkizovo Group has reaffirmed its leadership in the Russian meat market. For the fifth year running, the Company ranks first among the country’s largest meat producers according to Agroinvestor. Agroinvestor’s estimates show that the Group’s meat output stood at nearly 830,000 tonnes of slaughter weight in 2019 (more than an 18% increase y-o-y), widening the gap with its closest competitor Miratorg, whose slaughter weight production amounted to 554,000 tonnes. In 2019, Cherkizovo Group ramped up chicken, pork and turkey meat production all together. The Company’s business development was mainly driven by higher export volumes (primarily. Read more...

New technologies for growing meat breeds of cattle are applied in Bashkiria

  • 8 Jun 11:39

In 2019, 113 thousand tons of beef in slaughter weight were produced in Bashkortostan. This is the best indicator in the country. The region's share in the all-Russian production of cattle meat is 7%. The self-sufficiency of the republic with this type of meat is 140 percent. The main task set for agrarians in the coming years is to increase the share of high-quality beef production obtained from animal meat breeds. "The share of meat and cross-bred stock in beef production is growing. Now, this is one-third of the total volume of cattle meat obtained in agricultural enterprises and farms. In 2019, a program for the development of beef cattle breeding. Read more...