World meat industry news

Only 2% of Russians consider themselves vegetarians

  • 4 Apr 09:40

In March, an independent agency Zoom Market conducted a federal sociological survey, asking respondents to answer three questions: “Do you eat meat?”, “Do you consider yourself to be a vegetarian?”, “Are there vegetarians among your acquaintances?". The survey was conducted in 34 cities of Russia, 4080 interviews were included in the total sample. As it turned out, most vegetarians live in St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad. They are followed by Moscow, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Astrakhan, Ivanovo and Kazan. The survey results showed that only 2% of survey participants consider themselves vegetarians. According to Andrei Shtyrov,. Read more...

Ministry of Agriculture expects an increase in agricultural production

  • 4 Apr 09:40

According to the estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, this year the domestic livestock breeding will continue its progressive development - growth is predicted in all main segments of the sector. So, in 2019 the production of livestock and poultry for slaughter in live weight in farms of all categories will increase by 1.9% compared with the level of last year and will reach 15.15 million tons. Production of pigs will grow by 4%, cattle - by 1%, sheep and goats - by 1.5%, poultry - by 0.7%. A positive trend is observed in the production of milk and eggs. The increase in milk production is expected to reach 1.6% (to 31.1 million tons), egg production -. Read more...

Cherkizovo to receive a prestigious award at the SAP Innovation Awards 2019

  • 3 Apr 10:00

Сherkizovo Group is to receive a prestigious award at SAP's annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference held in May 2019 in Orlando, Florida after the new plant in Kashira was selected and named a winner in the Digital Trailblazer category at the SAP Innovation Awards 2019. The SAP Innovation Awards 2019 recognized businesses in a variety of categories, including Digital Trailblazer, Industry Disruptor, Process Innovator, Social Hero, and Next-Gen Innovator. The Digital Trailblazer award was contested by companies claiming the best use of technology to drive business transformation. Digital Trailblazer contestants use SAP products and technologies to profoundly transform. Read more...

Armenia cattle-breeding development program approved

  • 3 Apr 09:59

At its Cabinet session on Friday, the government approved the 2019-2024 cattle-breeding development program forArmenia. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Gegham Gevorgyan presented the matter. He noted that state assistance will be provided to this end, and by way ofpartial subsidization of respective loan interest rates. In his words, within the framework of this program,one business entity can obtain at least 300 farm animals. Gevorgyan added that in five years,milk and meat totaling 25 billion drams (approx. US$51,603,750) shall be produced inArmenia; that is, this will have a huge multiplication effect, and itwill have a positive impact on. Read more...

Miratorg hopes to increase pork production in the Kursk region in 2019

  • 3 Apr 09:55

By the end of this year, Miratorg Agribusiness Holding plans to increase pork production in the Kursk Region by 30% to 150 thousand tons in live weight. The region currently has more than 20 pig farms of the agroholding, which contain a quarter of the company's total pig herd. In 2018, the farms produced about 115 thousand tons of pork (live weight). Miratorg intends to increase these volumes by increasing the efficiency of production on existing farms, and also by launching an additional sites in several. Read more...

Russian meat market is growing despite difficulties

  • 3 Apr 09:55

The portal Meatinfo.ru analyzed the results of 2018, which was difficult for Russian livestock breeders and meat producers. The growth of grain exports caused feed prices rise. There was a series of bankruptcies in the poultry sector. VAT increased and Rosselkhoznadzor tightened the requirements for food manufacturers. Brazil has returned to the meat market in Russia, and that will strengthen competition. Nevertheless, last year the Russian agribusiness grew by 0.6 percent. In 2018 14,875 million tons of livestock and poultry were produced for slaughter (live weight) - 362 thousand tons more than in 2017. In the meat processing sector, the total production of the main. Read more...

Medvedev: U.S. Will Never Lift Sanctions on Russia

  • 2 Apr 08:59

Washington will never remove sanctions on Moscow because this is what its policies have been based on for years, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said while answering questions from users of theVKontaktesocial network on Friday. “I can tell you frankly: they will never remove sanctions on Russia because their policies – at least in the past 100 years – have been based on the continuous use of sanctions against our country, no matter what it is called, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation. There hasn’t been a single historical period when there were no sanctions at all,” Medvedev said, according toIzvestya. The Russian prime. Read more...

Quarterly update: Signs of change in global pork market

  • 2 Apr 08:56

Every quarter, pig market expert Dr John Strak takes a look at the situation of global pig trade. The effects of African Swine Fever (ASF) on global pig market situation cannot be denied, leading to prices going up. In previous issues I have written that 2018 was a time to be cautious and, at the end of 2018/early 2019 I wrote that caution should again be the priority for 2019. Indeed, I characterised the global market for hogs as being a,“glass half empty and that the source of a refill is not obvious.” Pig prices have jumped in USA and China In January and February the global market was subdued but in March it seems that some market players have. Read more...

Vaccines from the tobacco plant

  • 2 Apr 08:55

In addition to endangering animals and humans, avian influenza epidemics can significantly affect poultry meat and egg production in regions. When an infectious disease breaks out, there is often only one method to contain it - the culling of useful birds. However, a quick and inexpensive vaccination could soon offer a new alternative. In years of close cooperation, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Cultivated Plants Research (IPK) in Gatersleben and the Institute of Biotechnlology (IBT) in Vietnam's capital Hanoi have developed a method for the production of bird flu vaccines in plants. The IPK announced that a new project will focus. Read more...

Four Russian companies to export poultry meat to the Republic of the Philippines

  • 29 Mar 10:08

According to information received from representatives of the Department of Agriculture of the Republic of the Philippines, four Russian enterprises are able to supply their products to the territory of the Republic of the Philippines from May 12, 2019. The right to export their products to Philippines recieved "Stavropol Broiler", LISKo Broiler,"Vasilyevskaya", LLC "Bryansk Broiler". In January and September 2018, these enterprises were inspected by the competent authority of the Philippines. However, then the correspondence between the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Department of Agriculture of the Republic of the Philippines took a long. Read more...