Russian companies are optimistic that the sale of cheap grain and high-quality sweets will help create a climate of “comprehensive strategic cooperation” with China. However, they face completion in the Chinese market from more familiar food brands from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. A customer chooses leisure food in a supermarket in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Source: ZUMA Press/Global Look Press Despite low export prices (and Xi Jinping’s craving for Russian ice cream), Russia's food producers face daunting challenges in entering a highly competitive market. Probably, the biggest problem. Read more...
The price of pork continues to recover in these first months of 2017, and last week has closed at 1,310 € / kg / live, writes Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal. With this value, we are already above the year 2014 on the same date (compared to the price of last year), and almost at the same level as the maximum of 2016. The rest of Europe is also around 1.3 € / Kg / live. Every year that passes, the price changes seen by seasonality is disappearing. Domestic consumption of the EU influences its demand, but it is the demand of Asian countries that is generating a new guideline. Cold stores are empty throughout the European. Read more...
Cherkizovo Group, the largest vertically integrated meat and feed producer in Russia, announced its decision to acquire NAPKO, one of Russia’s leading grain producers. Among other assets, Cherkizovo Group will acquire NAPKO’s agricultural land of 147,000 hectares located in the Lipetsk, Tambov and Penza regions, which are strategically important areas for Cherkizovo Group. In 2016, NAPKO produced 250,000 tons of grain. Following the acquisition, Cherkziovo Group’s total operating land bank will reach 287,000 hectares. As part of the transaction, the Group will also acquire the supporting production infrastructure to cultivate the land and. Read more...
Meat is the only one of five major food commodity groups that saw an increase in the Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO). Read more...
Ukraine intends to boost poultry shipments to Saudi Arabia with a simultaneous increase in the number of Ukrainian enterprises certified to export such produce to that country, according to the State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service's press service referring to the agency's head Volodymyr Lapa. "Now, four Ukrainian enterprises have the right to export poultry and products made of it to the market of Saudi Arabia. We are interested both in increasing their number and in expanding the range of products for export," the press service quoted Mr Lapa as saying. Ukraine also plans to start beef exports to the market in Saudi. Read more...
Russia has enhanced laboratory controls over meat imported from Brazil but will take no further action following the rotten meat scandal, according to Julia Melano, press secretary of. Read more...
Cherkizovo Lab ran an employee training session in Lyon, France.The training, which was at theThermo Fisher Scientificlaboratory, involved analysing methods of enzymatic assay and learning how to use the latest software available in the industry. Participants also used cutting-edge nitrogen and carbon analysers to conduct comparative analyses of soil samples. Cherkizovo Group operates in a highly competitive market where there is a lack of skilled professionals, which is why the Group invests heavily in its human capital. The Group devotes significant resources to the continuous education of its research scientists to ensure they remain leaders in. Read more...
Nguyen Van Hung, Genesus Technical Sales Manager for Vietnam, attended the Embassy of Canada roundtable meeting with the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC), on 28 February in Hanoi, writes Paul Anderson, General Manager, South East Asia. Tran Tuan Anh, the Trade Commissioner for the Embassy of Canada in Vietnam, also led a visit to Genesus customer DABACO the day prior to the roundtable meeting. The delegation was very interested in Genesus’ business with DABACO, which is highlighted by the very recent arrival of 775 head of Genesus registered purebred swine from Manitoba in Canada to the quarantine farm prior. Read more...
Russia is backing an FAO-led effort to promote food safety and prevent the spread of medicine-resistant "superbugs" in food and on farms in five countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe with a donation of nearly $3.3 million. A new Russia-supportedFAOproject in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will help national authorities get a better handle the threats posed by antimicrobial resistant microbes in agriculture and food systems. The bulk of the funding will be used to support action on three broad fronts: Strengthening the regulatory and legal frameworks that underpin national efforts to address antimicrobial resistance. Read more...
Antimicrobial reduction was this year's theme at VIV Asia 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand. Along with our own event 'Growth promotion without antimicrobials' there were other side events dedicated to the topic. Here is a summary. Ceva Animal Healthhad a full-day conference on the theme of antibiotic reduction. Its ‘Swine Innovation Summit’ on 14 March, featured six internationally recognised speakers on antibiotic reduction. To name a few, Dr Hetty van Beers, of the Netherlands Veterinary Medicine Authority (SDa), delved deeper into the question of why and how antimicrobials should be used with much care. She also gave examples on why the approach. Read more...
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