World meat industry news

Miratorg’s president under fire in Russia

  • 22 May 10:46

A group of celebrities have initiated a campaign against Russia’s largest pork company Miratorg urging citizens to not purchase anything under the company’s labels as a result of several statements made by Viktor Linnik, Miratorg president in a recent interview to Forbes. Mr Linnik enraged Russian consumers, calling them ‘balabols’, a rude word commonly used in Russia for people talking too much and doing too little. How did it get this far? A request by the National Meat Association The outrage began a few weeks ago, when Russia’s National Meat Association (NMA) called on Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexey Gorgeev. The. Read more...

Aleksey Gordeyev: This year the agrarian complex will be able to achieve positive results

  • 22 May 10:44

Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev adheres to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for the collection of grain this year, which implies a harvest of 118 million tons. “Naturally, we have the same forecasts with the Ministry of Agriculture,” Gordeyev told Interfax. At the same time, he added that it is too early to make more accurate forecasts. "There are some fears, but only because of the weather," he said and noted, "as usual, our main enemy is drought, but so far Roshydromet does not provide any critical weather forecasts, so the forecast on yield remains the same." Gordeyev also believes that. Read more...

Medvedev: State veterinary control return to the federal level will improve the quality of agricultural products

  • 22 May 10:43

The Prime Minister also noted that now the Russian agribusiness complex is actively developing. The return of state veterinary control to the federal level will improve the quality of products of the agro-industrial complex. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a government meeting, where relevant bills are being considered. "The powers of state veterinary supervision will be returned [from the regional level] to the level of the Rosselkhoznadzor. After certain problems that have arisen, it has become obvious that now this kind of centralization is correct," Medvedev said. According to him, the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. Read more...

Penza region will spend12.5 million rubles to support beef cattle breeding

  • 21 May 09:41

Penza region will resume regional support for the beef industry. In 2019 it is planned to send 12.5 million rubles from the regional budget. This was reported in the press center of the regional government. Beef producers, as part of supporting the development of the industry, will be able to partially reimburse the costs of purchasing purebred beef cattle,. Read more...

Rosselkhoznadzor imposes restrictions on the supply of poultry meat from Mexico

  • 21 May 09:40

The ban will be temporary and is associated with the spread of a pathogen infection in one of the states of this country. The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has banned the import of poultry from the Mexican state of Sonohr due to Newcastle disease. This is the so-called "pseudo-avian bird flue", a viral disease in chickens with pneumonia, encephalitis and multiple lesions of internal organs. Restrictions relate to the supply of live poultry and hatching eggs, as well as meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment. Restrictions are also imposed on feed and feed additives, with. Read more...

Belarus complains about meat trade with Russia

  • 20 May 09:26

In Q1, just 69,000 tonnes of meat products were shipped to Russia. "If the dynamics stay in place, the annual target will be missed", say official sources. The Russian Agriculture Ministry is invited on May 15 in Minsk to discuss trade issues with its Belarusian counterpart. "In January-March we shipped 69,000 tonnes of meat products. If the dynamics stay in place, the annual target will be missed as well. Restrictions of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) on our food export are having a negative effect on the ability to hit the specified figures", declared Aleksei Bogdanov, Head of the. Read more...

Ukrainian egg exports have almost doubled

  • 20 May 09:24

In the first four months of this year, egg exports surpassed 52,000 tonnes, up by 80% compared with the same period last 2018. The volume of Ukrainian egg exports in the first four months of the year has grown considerably compared to the same period of 2018. According to official data released by the State Fiscal Sevice of the country, Ukraine exported 52,690 tonnes of eggs, with half of the volume shipped in the Middle East markets such as UAE and Iraq. The UAE market is the main destination for Ukrainian eggs, with 14,000 tonnes worth $12.7 million. Iraq comes second with 13,770 tonnes ($12.4 million)and the third place is occupied by Latvia with 5,000 tonnes of. Read more...

The Government of Crimea will develop a regional support program for livestock farming

  • 20 May 09:22

The leaders of large agricultural enterprises have come to the Government of Crimea with a proposal to include animal husbandry in the state support program that the regional ministry of agriculture is developing. Now the enterprises of the agro-industrial complex of the republic receive support from the federal budget of Russia - about 300 million rubles a year, which are allocated for these purposes. The Government of Crimea has suggested to add about 150 million rubles from the regional budget to these funds. The total amount of financing of the agro-industrial complex of Crimea in 2019 amounted to 2.2 billion rubles, but most of the funds are directed to the. Read more...

Russian pork and beef opens the Hong Kong market

  • 20 May 09:22

Rosselkhoznadzor received an official letter from the Hong Kong competent authority on food safety issues (Center for Food Safety, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department), containing a decision on the possibility of starting deliveries of pork, beef, and pork and beef by-products from Russia to Hong Kong. This was preceded by the perennial (over 4 years) work of the Rosselkhoznadzor with colleagues from Hong Kong, which included numerous negotiations, the preparation of extensive multipage materials on the veterinary surveillance system in Russia at all stages of animal production, the organization of inspection by representatives of the Hong Kong and competent. Read more...

Trump Ready for ‘a Lot of Trade’ with Russia after Putin Phone Call

  • 16 May 11:03

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he shares Vladimir Putin’s desire to improve trade ties between Russia and the U.S., after a lengthy phone conversation with his Russian counterpart earlier this month,Reutersreports. “We intend to do a lot of trade with Russia,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We do some right now. It’s up a little bit. But [Putin would] like to do trade and we’d like to do trade.” Trump said he’ll meet with China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin at theGroup of 20 summitin Japan in June. Putin’s foreign affairs advisersaidthe Kremlin is prepared to agree to any. Read more...