The French embassy to Russia has confirmed that it asked the Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor to provide explanations regardinginspections of Auchan hypermarketsas part of working contacts. However, the embassy did not express concerns, contrary to what the media claimed, the French embassy told Interfax on Aug. 13. Russian media had reported earlier that the French embassy to Moscow had expressed concerns about inspections in Auchan hypermarkets conducted by Russian phyto-sanitary authorities. It was reported earlier that Rosselkhoznadzor planned to go to court to make Auchan stop the in-house processing and sale of uncooked. Read more...
The Russian government has expanded the list of countries, which supported EU sanctions against Russia, and has introduced the food ban against them, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. "The government order expands the list of countries, against whom our state is introducing responsive economic measures,"Medvedev saidat a cabinet of ministers meeting on Aug. 13. "Now a number of countries have been added to the EU, Australia, Canada, Norway and the United States, from whom certain types of agricultural products were banned in August of last year, a whole number of countries - namely Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Lichtenstein and under. Read more...
On 6 August 2014, Moscow announced an embargo on imports of a range of agricultural products from the EU, applicable from 7 August. One year on, it is clear that the EU agri-food sector has been remarkably resilient. In most regions, most of the affected sectors have been able to find alternative markets, either within the EU or beyond. Whereas Russia accounted for 10 per cent of EU agri-food exports in 2013 (and the products banned amounted to 4 per cent ), the value of overall exports have increased by 5 per cent from August 2014 to May 2015, compared to the same period of the previous year (these are the most recent available figures). Major gains have been achieved. Read more...
Australia's largest wheat exporter, CBH Group is planning to start operations to Russia and sell Black Sea grain in Asian markets, Reuters reported. The grower-owned cooperative will open an office in Krasnodar and will use a local service provider to buy wheat and barley directly from Russian farmers,according to the World-Grain.com website. “This new venture will supplement grain purchased from Australian growers by allowing CBH to better satisfy customer requirements through providing varieties of grain that are prevalent in the Black Sea region but currently not grown in Australia,” Reuters cited CBH as saying in a. Read more...
Russian agriculture got a powerful boost when counter-measures were introduced in response to anti-Russian sanctions, but these embargoes will not remain in place forever, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. "Our agriculture received quite a powerful boost from the introduction of restrictive counter-measures or the food import embargo. Recently, we extended these restrictions by another year, and one has to admit that this helped agrarian firms make some achievements," Medvedev said at the first meeting of the governmental import-substitution commission on Aug.11. Agrarian firms confirm that "their working front has become wider and opportunities. Read more...
The volume of sanctioned produce destroyed is nearing 400 tonnes.A total of 41 tonnes of regulated produce, including 552kg found in carry-on luggage, was destroyed on Tuesday, the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) said on Aug. 11. Illegally imported products were found in the Primorsky territory, the Sakhalin and Kaliningrad regions, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. As on August 10, the volume of sanctioned produce destroyed amounted. Read more...
The Russian agricultural watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, destroyed 3 tonnes of meat and 20 tonnes of pepper subject to a food import embargo on Aug. 8. A total of 371 tonnes of embargoed food has been destroyed in Russia since Aug. 6, Rosselkhoznadzor said. The meat was discovered at a provisional control veterinarian outpost in Krasnaya Gorka, the Smolensk region. Three trucks contained 3 tonnes of beef without veterinary stamps and accompanying documents. Twenty tonnes of pepper discovered earlier was also destroyed at this outpost. In addition, 40 tonnes of peaches and nectarines provided with phyto-sanitary certificates issued in Belarus based on. Read more...
Sanctions against European food products are putting Russian farmers in the Kremlin's spotlight. Government grants to help farmers set up in business are growing. Yury Orlov from Mordovia runs a dairy farm. He has recently received a Russian governmentBeginning Farmergrant as a new farmer of 1.5 million rubles ($23,000). With this money, he has equipped a milking shed and purchased 15 cows. Yury is now planning to enter a competition for a grant as a “family farm" - worth between 3 and 7 million rubles ($47,000-$110,000), which would enable him to significantly increase capacity and production. Natalia Zvereva, director of regional social. Read more...
The slide in prices for dairy products and vegetable oils has driven the Food Price Index to its lowest monthly average value since September 2009.These price declines for major food commodities more than offset some increases for prices of sugar and cereals during July. Meat prices, meanwhile, remained stable. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 164.6 points in July, down 1.0 per cent from June, and 19.4 per cent from a year earlier. The trade-weighted index tracks prices on international markets of five major food commodity groups: cereals, meat, dairy products, vegetable oils and sugar. In July, the dairy price index dropped 7.2 per cent from the previous month,. Read more...
Russian authorities began destroying shipments of illegally imported Western food products on Aug. 6, sparking huge protests online, with many Russians calling for the food to be distributed to the needy. State agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, however, says that giving the food away would encourage corruption, and vows to bury and burn products that enter the country in violation of the embargo on Western food imports, despite the population's protests. As Russian bulldozers moved in to destroy 319 tons of illegal Western food imports on Aug. 6 in accordance with a controversial decree on the liquidation of banned foodstuffs, a public outcry was sweeping. Read more...
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