World meat industry news

Company plans Russia’s largest duck meat production unit

  • 19 Mar 13:43

Senior Russian government officials have confirmed to GlobalMeatNews their plans to build Russia’s largest duck meat production unit, in the Iskitimsky district of Novosibirsk. Read more...

Russia to export meat and fish to Turkey

  • 19 Mar 13:41

Russia's Minister of Agriculture is hoping to sing a deal in the coming months. Meat, fish and dairy products from Russia are to enter soon the Turkish market, announced Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev, according to TASS. "We expect, Turkey soon will allow its market Russia’s meat, dairy and fish products", declared Tkachev in an interview. The official mentioned that the Russian agriculture watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, has been working with the Turkish counterparts in order to get access to the Turkish market. Russia's agricultural turnover in 2017 was about $2.8 billion, marking a rise by 21% compared to 2016. The commercial. Read more...

Cherkizovo: "We are focusing on our premium brands"

  • 16 Mar 11:48

In a video interview for EuroMeatNews. com, Andrey Terekhin, Head of the Export Department of Cherkizovo Group, explains the export strategy of the biggest meat producer in Russia. Cherkizovo: "We are focusing on our premium brands" VIDEO INTERVIEW The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are the main targets in the Gulf region, poultry division of Cherkizovo betting on some new premium brands in order to gain a bigger market. Read more...

Ukraine's meat and egg prices soared in February

  • 16 Mar 11:47

Ukraine reported an increase in prices for eggs by 50.9% in February this year compared to the corresponding period from 2017, while meat prices rose by 26.6%, according to the latest data released by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as reported by UNIAN.Still. the cost for eggs and meat decreased in February compared to the previous month, by 1.6% and 0.3% respectively. As reported by UNIAN, inflation in Ukraine in February 2018 compared to February 2017 slowed to 14% from 14.11%. The National Bank predicts a decrease in inflation in Ukraine at the end of 2018 to 8.9%, which almost corresponds to the government's forecast at 9%. The State Statistics Service. Read more...

Miratorg launches Cipoletti sausages

  • 15 Mar 11:49

The company announced that its long-term strategy is to increase its production of high-quality domestic beef within the framework of the vertically integrated business model "from farm to fork". Miratorg's output of such products increased by 32% to 82 thousand tons by the end of 2017. The company's slaughtering and processing facility has a production capacity of 130 thousand tons of meat per year and supplies more than 400 products in consumer packaging: chilled meat and semi-prepared meat products. Furthermore, Miratorg's meat processing complex is equipped with high-tech equipment, which allows in a short time to develop new. Read more...

EU pig business slightly declining in 2017

  • 15 Mar 11:47

In 2017, EU pig slaughtering reached almost 255 mill. head, 1% lower than in the previous year.Pork production also decreased by 1% to 23.3 mill. t despite an increase in carcase weights, according to Eurostat data analyzed by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). AHDB analyst says that however throughputs in the final quarter were actually comparable to 2016, at 66 mill. head. Production levels were boosted marginally on the year by rising carcase weights. Higher throughputs in October and November were countered by a 4% drop in slaughterings in December, compared to year earlier levels. On an individual country basis, as the largest pig producer in. Read more...

Russian swine industry gets more profitable but consumption remains low

  • 14 Mar 10:29

Russia per capita consumption at 20kg per person is half of Europe's and a price drop could close old farms with low productivity. Import controls on pork imposed by Moscow have revived the swine industry in Russia but they could also represent a trap considering that the consumption is low and a price drop may put out of the business a great number of old, low productivity farms, according to the latest Genesus Inc global report on the industry. "An 85 rubbles/kg liveweight (66¢/lb US liveweight) is leading to profits in the $35-50 per head range. Some expansion is underway, and Russia with abundant land and grain production costs should be. Read more...

Russia managed to strengthen its position in the pork market of Hong Kong

  • 13 Mar 09:01

Despite continuing sanctions and food embargoes, Russian agricultural companies do not reduce the pork production volume, which is growing, and actively increase their exports. The number of pigs in Russia increased by 5.7% (by 1,251 thousand heads) during a year and amounted to 23.3 million heads by January 1, 2018. The volume of pork production in Russia amounted to 3,348.6 thousand tons in slaughter weight (4 568.3 thousand tons in live weight) in 2017, which is 5.0% or 159.5 thousand tons more than in 2016. There were no imports of chilled pork to Russia in 2017. Russia imported 270.7 thousand tons of frozen pork, which is by 6.1% (15.6 thousand tons) more than. Read more...

Russian producers hit by reduced poultry margins

  • 12 Mar 11:29

Russia’s third-largest poultry producer, agricultural holding Belaya Ptitsa, has reported financial turbulence, as falling prices and shrinking state aid keep pushing down. Read more...

ASF: An ever-growing problem for Russia and Ukraine

  • 12 Mar 11:27

Increasingly, the notion grows in both Russia and Ukraine, that African Swine Fever (ASF) needs to stay within the territories and that more thorough control policies are needed.The Russian agricultural ministry stated on its website that African Swine Fever (ASF) has led to ministry spending of about 14.2 billion roubles (US$ 220 million) in the last few years. This figure was only for anti-ASF monitoring, culling pigs infected with the disease and underpayment of taxes by the farms destroyed as a result of the outbreaks. Direct losses incurred by the pig industry due to ASF must have been many times higher, the ministry informed earlier. Independent. Read more...