World meat industry news

Last year Russia exported more than 700 tons of turkey meat to China

  • 13 Feb 10:56

According to the news service of the Federal Center for Agricultural Product Development of the Russian Federation Agro-Industrial Complex (Agroexport), Krasnobor agricultural holdings shipped over 700 tons of turkey meat to Chinese importers. According to forecasts for 2020, turkey suppliers have the opportunity to multiply export volumes. Agrifood Strategies expects export geography to expand and to include markets in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and neighboring countries. The plans of manufacturers include new contracts with importers of the United Arab Emirates.China and Hong Kong. Preliminary agreements have been concluded for the supply of turkey. Read more...

Cherkizovo Group announces operating results for January 2020

  • 12 Feb 11:52

Cherkizovo Group (MOEX: GCHE), the largest vertically integrated meat producer in Russia, today announces operating results for January 2020.[1] January 2020 January 2019 Change % y-o-y December 2019 Change % m-o-m Chicken Volume sold, thousand. Read more...

Russia bans poultry import from Poland

  • 12 Feb 11:49

Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor banned the import of poultry meat and meat products from the Warmia-Masuria province in northeast Poland, where authorities recorded an outbreak of bird flu. We introduce export restrictions from February 7 due to the complicated epizootic situation in Poland because of the highly pathogenic bird flu,stated the agency's representatives. According to the Rosselkhoznadzor, Poland recognized four more regions as dangerous. The ban also includes the imports of animal feed and equipment for chicken. Read more...

Vietnam has become the main importer of Russian pork

  • 11 Feb 10:47

Since the beginning of 2020, Vietnam has become the main importer of Russian pork, the Meatinfo portal reports citing the Center for Agricultural Analytics of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The volume of exports of this type of red meat to this East Asian country in January amounted to $ 5.7 million in value terms. The main share of Russian pork supplies to Vietnam was provided by Belgorod, Moscow and Kursk regions ($ 4.2 million, $ 1 million and $ 500 thousand, respectively). In total, according to the Federal Customs Service of Russia (FCS), the volume of pork export in January 2020 amounted to $ 12.4 million in monetary terms. Compared with. Read more...

Miratorg confirms tannery fully meets international standards

  • 11 Feb 10:44

Miratorg, one of Russia’s largest meat producers, reports that in 2019 the company’s tannery successfully passed the certification of the integrated management system and confirmed its compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 international standards. Miratorg has invested over 3.4 billion roubles in high-tech leather production in Bryansk region. With the capacity of 175 thousand sq. m of crust per month, the tannery makes today more than 20 types of products, which are supplied both to domestic and foreign markets. The highly automated plant is a part of the vertically integrated production with end-to-end traceability and 100% control: from. Read more...

Cherkizovo Group meets with Igor Artamonov, Head of the Lipetsk Region, to discuss investment projects

  • 10 Feb 12:46

Igor Artamonov, Head of the Lipetsk Region Administration, met with senior management from Cherkizovo Group (MOEX: GCHE) to discuss the construction of an oil extraction plant and other investment initiatives in the region. Special attention was given to the Company's compliance with the highest environmental standards. ThisThursday, Igor Artamonov, Head of the Lipetsk Region Administration, held a meeting with Cherkizovo Group's senior management to learn more about progress under the ongoing investment projects in the region. The discussion centred on the construction of an oil extraction plant in the Yeletsky Area, which will enter its active. Read more...

Good Harvest Turns Prices Down

  • 10 Feb 12:45

At the end of 2019, the inflation in Krasnodar province was one of the lowest nationwide, equalling to 2.7% vs. the national average 3% . Nonetheless, by the end of January prices for some food products went up, for instance, for buckwheat whose price steeply rose throughout the country. “[An important trend was] decrease of the price for vegetables caused by their high quality and good harvest volumes – due to which fact, a sufficient offer was kept until the very end of the year,” Aleksandr Gostev, Deputy Director of the Southern Directorate of the Bank of Russia, states. “The increment rates for meat slowed down due to. Read more...

Belarus' beef producer allowed to resume supplies to Russia

  • 7 Feb 10:48

The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has lifted restrictions on beef import by Belarusian company Myasnoi Dvor Tarasovo, BelTA learned from the website of the Russian agency. Eligible for the import to Russia are products made as from 5 February. The products shall be accompanied by digital veterinary certificates. Rosselkhoznadzor said it made the decision in view of the guarantees issued by the Veterinary and Food Oversight Department of the Belarusian. Read more...

AVEC’s Secretary General visits robot plant in Kashira

  • 7 Feb 10:28

Birthe Steenberg, Secretary General of the Association of Poultry Processors and Poultry Trade in the EU(AVEC), paid a visit to Cherkizovo Group’s automated Kashira plant and had a tour through its AI-based sausage production process. Last week, Secretary General of AVEC Birthe Steenberg came to Moscow at the invitation of Sergey Lakhtyukhov, Director General of the National Union of Poultry Farmers, to participate in theRussia in the global meat marketpanel discussion at the AGROS2020 exhibition. The Secretary General's programme also included a visit to Cherkizovo Group’s fully automated sausage plant in Kashira. The plant’s team took her on. Read more...

January Update – what’s new in the world of pigs?

  • 6 Feb 10:34

“Additives are beneficial for swine production,” that message can often be heard. Both Evonik as well as Trouw Nutrition aimed to dig a little deeper and both published a study this month to emphasise those benefits. In addition, Biomin opened a new lab and Boehringer Ingelheim a new purification technology. It all happened in January 2020. Evonik and KPMG examine benefits of feed additives AnEvonikand KPMG publication examined the impacts of swine production and outlined the potential societal benefits of using feed additives which reduce protein intake. Part of the analysis was based on pork production in China. Results show that using innovative feed for. Read more...