Negotiators from across the globe are meeting in Hawaii this week for a 'decisive round' of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.The meeting of trade ministers is taking place inMaui, Hawaii from July 28-31, and was preceded by a meeting of TPP Chief Negotiators from July 24-27. The countries negotiating the agreement includeAustralia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam. The agreement would increase trade between these countries by eliminating tariffs and other trade barriers. Farming is a key point of disagreement in the negotiations, with supply management of dairy. Read more...
Subsistence farming and bartering characterise a region of the world that is hoped to become internationally recognised for its dairy produce.Since breaking Soviet ties in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has seen a degree of contraction in the dairy sector. Many of the vast, indoor, intensive dairies have been broken up and replaced with back-yard operations. However, this could be set to change if a major development scheme takes hold. A “holistic and comprehensive” initiative has been announced to address the key challenges besetting the country’s dairy farmers. The Dairy Sector Development Programme, supported by the World Bank Group, wants to. Read more...
China has begun work on the construction of a 100,000-cow dairy unit to supply the Russian market with milk and cheese. The site in Mudanjiang City, north-east China, is the world’s largest and marks a 1bn yuan (£103m) collaboration between Russian and Chinese investors. China’s Zhongding Dairy Farming and Russia’s Severny Bur are behind the project. The world’s largest sitecurrently operational is the 40,000-cowModern Dairy Company unit in China (pictured and video below). Forthe new site, feed and forage stocks needed to supply the year-round housed animals will be grown on 100,000ha of land most of which is in Russia. How. Read more...
Economic ties between the countries have been on the upswing for a while. There is already an agreement for Russia to supply Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) civil aircraft, while KamAZ has successfully entered the Southeast Asian market. Thai business are involved in major agricultural projects in Russia. However, bilateral trade still lags behind potential. The 6th Russia-Thailand Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation met in Moscow this month. The meeting was co-chaired by Denis Manturov, Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia and Tanasak Patimapragorn, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.. Read more...
Russia’s economy, set to contract this year for the first time since 2009, may rebound 0.5 percent in 2016, a Bloomberg survey shows. Russia is the best bet for investment among BRICS countries in 2015,according to Bloomberg. “Our models are telling us to buy Russia,” Tim Love, a London-based investment manager at GAM told the news agency. “There is a very strong turnaround potential. It’s an increasingly difficult call to get right because of politics. I’d be happy to pull the trigger in the next two to three months.” The agency notes that in nominal terms, the MICEX index (Russian stocks) in 2015 rose by 18 percent,. Read more...
Leading Thai agro-industrial and food conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is looking at buying a food-processing firm in Russia, CPF Chief Executive Adirek Sripratak told The Nation. There are two deals under negotiation, the paper said, adding that the negotiations follow CPF board approval for the company’s Dutch subsidiary to acquire an integrated poultry business in Russia from Agro-Invest Brinky for around $680 million. CPF has a livestock-feed and swine-farming business in Russia and plans to invest up to $1 billon in pork production near Moscow, Kaluga and Kaliningrad. Adirek told the Nation that the planned acquisition of the food-processing. Read more...
“By 2030 New Zealand Inc will not need antibiotics for the maintenance of animal health and wellness,” said New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) President Dr Steve Merchant. Around 70 per cent of human infectious diseases, including meningitis, anthrax and salmonellosis (food poisoning) have come from animals. “With sharply increasing levels of resistance to antibiotics worldwide, we want animals and, by extension, humans to enter the ‘post-antibiotic’ era as safely as possible.” Dr Merchant said this is a significant undertaking, requiring considerable teamwork and commitment from the veterinary profession, working. Read more...
The announcement of JBS purchasing Cargill is behind us. That should put JBS in the #2 spot for packers, which is above Tyson. This also means that, between Brazil and China, they have control of about 50 per cent of the packing capacity in the US, writes Alan Bentley, Sales & Service, Genesus. The packing industry has gone through many changes, one of the most important being the invention of refrigerated cars. The plants were then able to move to where the livestock was produced and away from the cities. Boxed meat was the next change, which made swinging meat a term of the past and local butchers go the same way as makers of wooden wagon wheels. Packing has. Read more...
McDonald’s Canada is one step closer to purchasing Canadian beef from verified sustainable sources thanks to a pilot project which has begun on-site verifications of beef operations across Canada. McDonald’s – which already sources all of its beef for its Canadian operations from Canadian producers - announced a year ago that it is committed to begin purchasing a portion of its beef from verified sustainable sources in 2016, writes Angela Lovell for TheCattleSite. Since then it has developed its pilot verification project in consultation with multiple stakeholders, including beef producers and the Canadian Roundtable for. Read more...
South Africa had committed in Paris to accommodate USDA’s request for recognition of its current negligible risk status under bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and resume its imports of US beef. This is according to a Foreign Agricultural Service report which said the issue has not been concluded. The US has been unable to export US beef to South Africa under terms consistent with its OIE risk status since 2005, when the United States resumed exports of beef to many nations, the report said. The US began exporting a limited scope of products to many nations in 2005 following the implementation of the ruminant feed ban. As the OIE’s determination of. Read more...
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