Over the last month, doubts about the state of the Chinese economy have increased, which could be a cause for cause for concern among global pork exporters. Over the last month, doubts about the state of the Chinese economy have increased. Although Chinese economic growth rates have been slowing for some time, the latest concerns have been triggered by a sharp fall in the Shanghai Stock Exchange since mid-June. This has led the government to suspend some share trading, raising doubts about its ability to manage the economy. While the fall in stock values shouldn’t have an immediate impact on the Chinese economy as a whole, it could erode consumer confidence. Read more...
UK beef exports have been hammered down 11 per cent by a weak euro and Russian trade sanctions.These factors have added to already tight UK cattle supplies, according to market analysts at the Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland (LMC). The LMC said 2015 beef shipments at the end of May amassed 39,696 tonnes compared to 44,776 tonnes for the same period last year. Europe remains the biggest buyer of UK beef, accounting for 92.5 per cent of total UK beef exports for the first five months of 2015, although this was down from 96 per cent last year. Ireland is the single biggest buyer, taking 43 per cent of the Europe’s UK beef, much of which comes. Read more...
More village pigs have died after four new outbreaks of African Swine Fever in Russia. There were 13 deaths out of the 18 cases found. In total, the village pig holdings had 56 pigs, and the remaining pigs were destroyed to contain the disease. The outbreaks took place in the provinces of Kurskaya and Bryanskaya in. Read more...
The Cherkizovo Group continues to cement its leading position in poultry in Russia, with further investment for member company ZAO “Mosselprom”, that will equip its hatchery in the Moscow region with Smart™ incubation technologies from Pas Reform. The hatchery capacity is 48 million eggs per year. Established in 2000, Mosselprom has gained a reputation as one of the most efficient agricultural producers in the country. Fully integrated operations encompass every process, from the cultivation of wheat to retail distribution, making the company fully independent in its production of broilers and poultry meat products. Yuriy. Read more...
The recent VIV Russia Exhibition proved to be the perfect opportunity for Aviagen® LLC to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Yasnogorsk hatchery, which has seen year on year growth and now has over 60 Russian customers. The state of the art hatchery supplies the main Aviagen broiler breeds, Arbor Acres®, Ross® 308 and Ross PM3 to the Russian poultry market. The Aviagen display focused on biosecurity and product quality and a customer reception provided an ideal forum to celebrate the investment the company has committed to the Russian industry and local market. Interest was high as visitors took the opportunity to discuss their plans. Read more...
Russia’s leading integrated meat and finished feed producer Cherkizovo Group has reported a decline in its pork sales volume following an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF).The pork division sales volume in the first half of 2015 decreased by nine per cent to 74 379 tonnes of live weight from 81 318 tonnes in the first half of 2014. The decrease was due mostly to the quarantine closure of two finishing facilities after the ASF outbreak in late December 2014. The outbreaks affected two ofCherkizovo's sites. One in theVoronezh region and one in the Orel region. Only a few animals at each site were effected, allowing the company to take control. Read more...
JD.com plans to sell Russian food, jewelry, cosmetics and other goods in China by the end of this year, the president of the Chinese e-commerce company’s international business group Victor Xu said this week. “We are negotiating with a number of interested Russian companies and manufacturers,” Xu said. The company’s managers also met Russian officials to discuss Sino-Russian trade, according to Xu. Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner own about 9 percent of the shares of JD.com (through the DST Global fund). Over the last few years, they have invested $780 million in the JD.com. JD.com is following in the footsteps of. Read more...
Three quarters of consumers in the UK put animal welfare at the top of the list when it comes to ethical issues for food companies.Concerns over how animals reared for meat, dairy products and eggs are treated is the top of the list of issues for consumers when companies make ethical claims. More than half of UK consumers would also stop buying products from companies that are found to be acting unethically. A new survey from the market analyst company Mintel shows that welfare issues come above concerns over the environment, the treatment of employees and issues such as tax avoidance when it comes to ethical production of food. The survey that looked at a sample. Read more...
Hundreds of millions of dollars in development finance from the World Bank’s investment arm have helped to fund the controversial expansion of a billionaire’s agribusiness empire in Ukraine, amid growing concern that land and farming in the country are increasingly falling into the hands of a few wealthy individuals. Controlled by one of Ukraine’s wealthiest men, Yuriy Kosiuk, the agribusiness company Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) dominates the country’s domestic poultry market and exports chicken and luxuries such as foie gras across Europe. Since 2010, it has received at least $200m (£128m) in long-term loans from the. Read more...
China is America’s biggest customer for agricultural products, with almost a fifth of imported goods coming from the US.Today, this is worth $25 billion in annual sales.This was not always the case, however, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS), which has seen growth in Chinese buying develop from around 2-3 per cent in the mid-1990s. Economic reforms, urbanisation and a rapidly developing livestock sector have played a part in a major shift in Chinese demands over the last 20 years. This began to take hold relatively recently, when US agricultural exports to China doubled between 2008 and 2012. China -. Read more...
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