World meat industry news

Russia intends to increase agriexports to Hungary

  • 21 Feb 09:05

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Sergey Levin and the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Hungary Sandor Farkaš held a meeting in Budapest of the Working Group on Agriculture of the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation. The congregation discussed the matters of current agritrade and food turnover, joint agricultural startups, veterinary and phytosanitary collaboration, expanding science and business relations. Sergei Levin believes that despite apparent growth in Russian agricultural exports to Hungary last year, the disparity in mutual trade is still tangible. The agreement aimed at expanding. Read more...

Russia Develops Cooperation With Gulf Countries

  • 21 Feb 09:04

The Russian delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sergey Levin, took part in the 25th Gulfood 2020 Exhibition of Food, Drinks, Equipment for Hotel, Restaurant Business and Gastronomy in the United Arab Emirates. Our country presented at the exhibition an exposition with the participation of more than 40 companies from various regions of Russia, demonstrating a wide range of domestic agricultural products. On the sidelines of the exhibition, the Deputy Minister held bilateral meetings with the UAE Minister of Climate and Environment Changes Tani al-Zeyudi and the UAE Minister of Food Security Mariam Mheiri, during which he discussed the prospects for. Read more...

Saudi Arabia inspects Ukranian poultry system

  • 20 Feb 10:40

The audit mission is visiting territorial bodies of the State Service on Food Safety and Consumer Protection, poultry farms and meat processing enterprises in the Kyiv and Cherkasy regions. An audit mission from Saudi Arabia is visiting Ukraine to find out more about the system of state control over the production of poultry meat and poultry health, informs the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection. "A delegation of representatives of the competent authority of Saudi Arabia will work in Ukraine between February 17 and February 21, 2020, to examine the system of state control over the production of poultry meat and poultry health,". Read more...

Kazakhstan suspends meat exports to China over coronavirus fears

  • 20 Feb 10:38

Plans to increase meat exports by 25% have been put on hold until a clearer picture of the situation created by the outbreak is obtained. Kazakstan decided to suspend meat exports to China until a clearer picture of the situation created by the coronavirus outbreak is obtained. According to the agreement between China and Kazakhstan, China-Kazakhstan Horgos Frontier International Cooperation Center will be shut down till February 29, 2020, and will be reopened until further notice. Last year, Kazakhstan's meat exports totaled 63,000 tonnes, of which 4,000 tonnes were shipped to China. However, meat producers have planned for this year to increase their. Read more...

Russian agricultural exports for Serbia to expand

  • 19 Feb 11:00

On February 12 the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia hosted another meeting of the Russian-Serbian Working Group on Agriculture. The event was presided by the heads of the Russian and Serbian parties–the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sergey Levin and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Resources of the Republic of Serbia Bogdan Igich. The meeting participants observed agricultural cooperation, and also veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance. Sergey Levin ticked off obviously positive dynamics in trade relations all over national agricultural sectors of both countries. He reported that last year the agritrade turnover increased by. Read more...

Russian organic products come laden with outstanding export capacity

  • 19 Feb 10:59

Being on a working visit to Germany, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Maxim Uvaidov partook in the events of the world’s leading trade fair for organic goods BIOFACH 2020. In particular, at the panel discussion “Development of Organic Agriculture in Russia”, organized within the APD (German-Russian AgriPolitical Dialogue) cooperation project, he delivered a speech emphasizing that the Russian Organic Act establishing the compliancy standards for production and labeling of domestic organic agriproducts, which is also aimed at eliminating those notorious “mala fide marketing practices”, has been reinforced since January 1,. Read more...

Central Bank: prices in Russia have slowed growth due to products

  • 18 Feb 10:12

Annual inflation in January slowed down from 3 to 2.4 percent. The Bank of Russia explains the decline in price growth to several factors: the expanded offer of food, strengthenedruble andmodest consumer demand. In January, the fruits and vegetables price fell for the fourth month in a row, including vegetables, fruits and citrus. A wide offer of products and agricultural raw materials in the coming months will continue to keep prices down, especially for theproducts ofgrain and meat,dairy products, eggs, and sugar. The annual food inflation slowed down from 2.6 to 2.0 percent. CB mentions the 0.9 percent decrease in prices for meat and poultry compared to January. Read more...

Some Belarusian foods banned from Russian food expo for unknown reasons

  • 18 Feb 10:07

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) has yet to officially notify the Belarusian side why the agency has forbidden the display and sampling of some Belarusian dairy products as part of the international food expo Prodexpo 2020 in Moscow, BelTA learned from Ivan Smilgin, Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister, Director of the Veterinary and Food Oversight Department of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. In his words, all the companies willing to participate in Prodexpo 2020 (including those, which are temporarily forbidden to export their products to Russia) contacted the Veterinary and Food Oversight. Read more...

Russia's Don Agro debuts at S$0.25 on SGX, 13.6% higher than IPO price

  • 17 Feb 11:22

RUSSIAN agri and dairy firm Don Agro International on Friday made its debut on the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) Catalist at S$0.25, 13.6 per cent higher than its initial public offering (IPO) price of S$0.22 apiece. As at 10.50am on Friday, the counter was trading flat at S$0.245. Don Agro, whichoperates winter wheat, sunflower and dairy cattle farms in southern Russia'sRostov region, is the first Russian firm to be listed on the Singapore bourse.Its IPO involved the issuance of 23 million new placement shares at S$0.22 each toraise some S$5.1 million. Evgeny Tugolukov, executive chairman of Don Agro International, noted that being listed on SGX will. Read more...

Pork continues to thrive

  • 17 Feb 11:17

Pork production in Russia does not seem to have reached its peak yet.Russian animal production remained on an expansion course last year. Rising livestock numbers lead us to expect further growth in pork in 2020. According to the Russian Federal Statistical Service (Rosstat), production of all types of meat increased by 1.9% compared to 2018 to a total of 15.2 mill. t live weight (LG). The strongest growth was again recorded in pork production, which increased by 5.1% to around 5.0 mill. t. Growth rates were more moderate at 0.8%t to 2.8 mill. t for beef and 0.6% to 6.7 mill. t for poultry, reported AgE. Only the volume of sheep and goat meat, at 462,200 t, fell short. Read more...