Ovostar Union, a group of egg producers in Ukraine, intends to aggressively move towards the EU market by investing in a huge complex in Latvia or any other EU country in the region. Ovostar's investment plans for Latvia assume the creation of a complex whose final production potential would amount to six million commercial laying hens, according toAgropolskamagazine. The investment is supposed to start in the coming months and be completed by 2026 but discussions are underway with local authorities. However, if the plans are not successful in Latvia, investors are interested in entering the markets of such countries as Poland, Estonia or Lithuania. In the last. Read more...
Ukrainian agri-giant MHP has made its largest inroad into European markets to date with the purchase of the integrated Slovenian poultry firm Perutnina Ptuj.The merger has already been approved by the relevant competition authorities, and a final valuation of the firm’s assets is underway, according to an MHP spokesman. Series of partnerships While the firm owns further processing facilities in Europe, this marks the first fully integrated operation bought by MHP, which said it has plans for a series of similar partnerships in 2019. MHP, which has bought a holding of more than 90% in the firm, said it had committed to protecting jobs at the business,. Read more...
African Swine Fever virus (ASFv) can be easily transmitted orally through both water as well as feed, according new US research, although doses required for infection are higher in plant-based feed. That was the conclusion of research by a team of scientists atKansas State University. The team, led by Dr Megan Niederwerder, assistant professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, researched how ASF virus could spread in feed and feed ingredients. The study was published inEmerging Infectious Diseases, a journal published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ASF levels needed in liquid are very low Dr Niederwerder’s team team found that. Read more...
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia promises to reduce prices for poultry meat this year due to the restoration of production at some enterprises. The department said that prices have already begun to change and have fallen by 4.2% since the beginning of the year, reports moneytimes.ru. The consumer price index published by Rosstat indicates that pork prices have also decreased. So, from January 21 to February 4, average pork price fell by 0.6%. Director General of the National Union of Pig Producers Yuri Kovalev noted, that this year the decline in prices of pork will continue. First of all, this will be affected by the growth of production and internal. Read more...
Ukraine's poultry meat exports reached 29.2 thousand tonnes with a total value of $38.8 million in January 2019, according to the latest data released by the State Fiscal Service. Meanwhile, in the same month, 11.6 thousand tonnes of chicken meat were delivered to Ukraine for a total of $4.6 million, as reported by UNN. Ukraine's chicken meat exports exceeded the imports by 2.6 times in weight terms. The country's main export destination were Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and Slovakia. In January, Ukraine delivered chicken meat to Saudi Arabia worth a total $7,900. At the same time, the Netherlands bought Ukrainian poultry meat for $6,800, while. Read more...
Kyrgyzstan has witnessed an increase of 2.1% for its meat production in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. According to the recent data, overall, all categories of economic entities in Kyrgyzstan produced 403.3 thousand tonnes of meat in live weight in 2018. The increase in meat production was mainly based on the increase in livestock and poultry numbers, as reported by Tazabek. The number of cattle increased by 3.1% compared to 2017, sheep and goats - by 0.9%, pigs - by 2.2%, horses - by 3% and poultry - by 4.2%. The number of cattle reached 1.6 million head, the sheep and goat. Read more...
The emergence of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Mongolia has alerted Russia’s veterinary authority Rosselkhoznadzor – leading to an import stop for pigs and pork. There is fear that the outbreaks may pose a threat to Russian regions that still enjoy an ASF-free status. The veterinary watchdog has prohibited importing Mongolian pigs and pork as from early February. The decision has been taken primarily because Mongolia has been supplying meat products to regions in southern Siberia. In that part of Russia, there are no major pork production facilities, so historically it has had a higher dependence on imports. ASF in a batch of pork sausages Rosselkhoznadzor. Read more...
Russian agricultural holding Miratorg has manufactured its first commercial batch of lamb at the sheep cluster launched in 2018 and is ready to expand the project. The first batch of around 4,000 t has been supplied to the Miratorgs meat processing plant in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, where the company already processes other types of red meat. The sheep were grown at the pilot farm designed for 50,000 head at a time. Miratorg plans to invest $480 mill. in lamb production between now and 2023, the company revealed in a statement in October 2018. In general, Miratorg wants to build 12 farms designed to keep 1.3 mill. head of sheep, and produce 71,200 t of high-quality. Read more...
Head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov has signed agreements of intent in the field of agriculture for 30 billion rubles. One of them concerns the construction of a fidlot with an area of 104 hectares in the Fedorovsky district. The project will require 4 billion rubles. The companies Inalca S.p.A, Orenbiv LLC and AgroSakmara Bashkiria LLC will take part in the project, writes rbtoday.ru. It is noted that these companies are part of Italian Gruppo Cremonini. The project is planned to be implemented in the next 2 years. Young stock will be procured in peasant farms, private farms and agricultural enterprises. It will be grown for. Read more...
The Znamensky breeding and genetic center from the Oryol region, which is part of the Exima agricultural holding, is establishing cooperation with Cuba and Japan, reports "Agroinvestor" with reference to the general director of the company Elena Klimova. According to her, negotiations on the delivery of sausages, hams and delicacies were held through the Russian Export Center (REC) with Japanese counterparties. “Now we are making recipes according to their requirements for composition, additives, organoleptics, etc., then we will have to give them samples,” Klimova said. The first shipments to Japan may start in 2019. In addition, Cuba. Read more...
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