A new agricultural center with Israeli technology will be set up near the city of Vladivostok, Primorye Territory Governor Vladimir Miklushevsky said on November 13. An agreement to set up the center was signed by the Primorye Administration and Biotecmarket, a Russian-Israeli company, during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in September 2015. The Primorye center will be the first of 15 agricultural product wholesale and distribution centers in Russia using Israeli technology. Working principles According to Miklushevsky, around 60 percent of the space at the center will be occupied by specially equipped storages facilities for vegetables, fruit, potatoes,. Read more...
Despite economic sanctions and the crisis, U.S. companies are continuing to increase their presence in Russia. The cornerstone of American success is the inexpensive fast-food market, which has only grown more popular during the crisis. Russians eat in a McDonald's restaurant. Source: AFP/East News Companies from the United States are continuing their active expansion into the Russian market. At the end of the period between the second half of 2014 and the first half of 2015, the share of U.S. brands accounted for 64 percent of the new outlets opened in Russia, according to a study carried out by the company Magazin Magazinov. The share of the. Read more...
To protect your pigs and the farm from African Swine Fever (ASF), it is vital to keep out new pathogens.In part 3 of this series, veterinarians John Carr and Mark Howells, discuss the number three source of pathogens onto your farm - trucks. The number three source of new pathogens is a dirty truck. Number one is the perimeter fence (Part 2 of this series), number two would be the location of the farm and the pathogens in your district. Number three is the vehicles which come to your farm. Back to your farm! What measures have you got in place to ensure vehicles are not a threat to your farm? Do you inspect visiting trucks – in particular animal trucks? Are. Read more...
The EU has ignored calls from the Russian veterinary authorities for international cooperation to tackle African swine fever in Eastern Europe and Russia. The Russian veterinary authority Rosselkhoznador said that the agency’s advice had “not been heard” and as a consequence ASF got a foothold in the Baltic states and Ukraine and had spread rapidly. A report from Rosselkhoznador said that the large number of small scale enterprises in the region trading in pork also increased the risk of the spread of the virus. Rosselkhoznador said that since ASF was first discovered in the Baltic area the disease had become widespread because of the number of wild. Read more...
Pig-keepers should review their use of antibiotics at least every quarter, new guidance from the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) Antimicrobial Sub-group and the Pig Veterinary Society (PVS) has advised. The guidance paper has been published to help pig producers cut their use of antimicrobials. It advises that the review should include a clinical inspection of the herd; analysis of production and mortality data; and a review of abattoir records, as well as both treatment records and laboratory results. Further investigations must be conducted when the clinical inspection has highlighted any problems such as increased mortality. Sub-group chairman. Read more...
Volatility has been rampant in the cattle market, week to week in the cash market and daily in the futures, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner. Arguments can be made as to why this is happening and if we will ever see “normal” again. Stepping back a bit, we analysed the recent state of some fundamentals in the fat cattle cash market, that have played at least some part in recent weekly cash price movements. The table below depicts the numbers that will be discussed. AMS weekly reported fat cattle cash or negotiated prices were taken for representative weeks over the past few months for multiple regions that are included in the five market average. The. Read more...
The US has given South Africa 60 days to remove barriers to US meat exports. Failure to do so could result in South Africa losing African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) benefits for agricultural products. Kevin Lovell, CEO of the South African Poultry Association, talked to ThePoultrySite's Glenneis Kriel about the South African side of the story. There are many takes on why the US is threatening to withdraw African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) benefits for South African agricultural produce. These range from discontent over South Africa’s involvement with Russia and China through its relationship with BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and. Read more...
A new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been reported on a pig operation in the Saratovskaya region. In total, one case was reported at the backyard pig operation. All six pigs on the farm have been. Read more...
Bilateral trade touched $55.9 billion in first ten months of 2015 Bilateral trade touched $55.9 billion in first ten months of 2015. Source: Reuters Sino-Russian bilateral trade in the first ten months of 2015 touched $55.9 billion, a fall of 29 percent from the same period a year ago. From January to October 2015, China’s exports to Russia stood at $28.46 billion, a fall of 35.7 percent from a year ago, while Imports from Russia fell by 20.7 percent and stood at $27.45 billion. The figures were released by China's Customs authorities on November 9. Analysts attribute the fall to. Read more...
Sombat Thiratrakoolchai, President of the Thai-Russian Chamber of Commerce (TRCC) talks to RBTH about the potential for bilateral trade and two-way investment between Russia and Thailand. Russia, Thailand planning to boost trade turnover from $5 billion to $10 billion by 2016. Source: Sergey Krasnouhov / RIA Novosti RBTH: When it comes to Russia-Thailand cooperation, what are the main challenges? The challenges at this point are the sluggish world economic outlook and the devaluation of the ruble due to low oil and gas prices. Tourist numbers from Russia to Thailand have fallen by half. I personally believe it will take few years to come back to a situation where. Read more...
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