World meat industry news

Mitigation of sanctions pressure on the Russian agricultural industry is expected in the State Duma

  • 27 Dec 10:32

Mitigation of sanctions pressure on the Russian agricultural industry is expected in the State Duma Anti-Russian sanctions will continue to affect the work of the Russian agro-industrial complex (AIC) of Russia, but to a lesser extent than in the current year, Nadezhda Shkolkina (United Russia), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, told reporters. The current year was, according to her, “really extraordinary for farmers”: on the one hand, record harvests of grain and oilseeds, on the other hand, low prices for products against the backdrop of seriously increased production costs. “Anti-Russian sanctions to a lesser extent, but still will have an impact on the work of the agro-industrial complex in 2023. We are. Read more...

Meat exports from Russia in 2022 exceeded imports by more than 100 thousand tons

  • 27 Dec 10:30

Meat exports from Russia in 2022 exceeded imports by more than 100 thousand tons The volume of meat exports from Russia in 2022 exceeded the volume of imports. This was stated in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel by the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert. "We are exporting 650,000 tons of meat this year, and we are importing 530,000 tons today. These are fresh figures. And we are in a surplus of about 100,000 tons of meat. Therefore, we import what we need and export what we can export," he said. According to Dankvert, Russian meat exporters focus on countries such as Vietnam, China and the United Arab Emirates. Of the 500 thousand tons of imports, according to him, about half of the volume falls on Belarus.. Read more...

Belgorod region - the meat capital of Russia

  • 26 Dec 10:29

Belgorod region - the meat capital of Russia The Belgorod region ranks third in the Russian Federation in terms of total output. The Voronezh Region ranks fifth, and the Lipetsk Region ranks 12th. Elena Nikitina, deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor department for the Voronezh, Belgorod and Lipetsk regions, spoke about this. According to Nikitina, all three regions served by the department are regions with developed agricultural production. "The Belgorod region may be described as the meat capital, the Lipetsk region - as a region in which the crop industry is developed, and the Voronezh region - with a developed dairy industry." - Elena Nikitina. In terms of total output produced, the Belgorod Region. Read more...

Meat prices dropping in Russia

  • 26 Dec 10:28

Meat prices dropping in Russia In Russia, the retail price of meat has been decreasing for several months, the head of the executive committee of the National Meat Association, Sergei Yushin, said on December 24 on the air of the program “From Mikoyan to Mamikonyan” on Vesti-FM. Despite the fact that the incomes of the population are not growing, the consumption of meat by the population of the country has increased, the expert noted. “We have wholesale and retail prices for poultry and pork, and they account for 80% of the consumption of meat and meat products, they are lower than they were last year,” Yushin said. In Russia, there is a steady decline in prices for broiler. Read more...

Growth of meat production in Russia

  • 26 Dec 10:27

Growth of meat production in Russia Russia has reached a historical record in meat production, the head of the executive committee of the National Meat Association, Sergei Yushin, said on December 24 on the air of the program “From Mikoyan to Mamikonyan” on Vesti-FM. After Russia introduced a duty on the import of meat, limited the volume of imports into the country, since 2005, a gradual increase in the production of all types of domestic meat began, because the profitability of production appeared, the expert said. “This 2022 is the year of an absolute record not only in recent history, I looked, in the history of our entire country, starting from tsarist times,” Yushin. Read more...

Russia exported 21 million tons of food and 14.5 million tons of fertilizers in 2022

  • 23 Dec 10:48

Russia exported 21 million tons of food and 14.5 million tons of fertilizers in 2022 "That is, despite the presence of sanctions, in fact, a logistical war with us, bans on settlements, disconnecting us from the interbank system, trade in food and mineral fertilizers continues. It is difficult. We are overcoming these difficulties. But there is trade," she stressed. In addition, according to the vice-premier, an experiment was conducted with Turkey in the autumn on settlements in rubles. "So far, this is an experiment rather than a rule. Our Central Bank is working with all friendly countries in order to apply the settlement mechanism in national currencies. That is, in principle, it is possible. The first. Read more...

Pork imports to Russia to grow by 1.5 times by the end of the year

  • 23 Dec 10:46

Pork imports to Russia to grow by 1.5 times by the end of the year According to the results of 2022, pork imports to Russia will grow by 48.8% to 16,800 tons in carcass weight. Such a forecast is contained in the monitoring of the situation in the meat markets of the Russian Union of Poultry Breeders (Rosptitsesoyuz), which was reviewed by Vedomosti. It says that this is the only type of meat, the supply of which will increase. For example, according to the results of the year, chicken imports will decrease by 27.3% to 177,800 tons, beef - by 22.9% to 165,100 tons. A request to the Russian Poultry Union remained unanswered. Information about the growth of pork imports is confirmed by the National Union of Pig Breeders (NSS) and. Read more...

The government approved import quotas for beef and poultry in 2023

  • 23 Dec 10:38

The government approved import quotas for beef and poultry in 2023 The Russian government approved the distribution of tariff quotas set for 2023 by the Eurasian Economic Commission for the import of Russian beef and poultry meat, the corresponding Cabinet decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. According to the resolution, the volume of the tariff quota for fresh or chilled cattle meat (cattle) is set at 40,000 tons, including 29,000 tons for supplies from the European Union and 11,000 tons from other countries. In turn, the size of the tariff quota for frozen cattle meat is 530,000 tons: 60,000 each for the USA and the European Union, 3,000 tons for Costa Rica, and 407,000 for other countries. In. Read more...

The State Duma recommended limiting margins on essential products

  • 22 Dec 10:37

The State Duma recommended limiting margins on essential products In Russia, the list of socially significant products includes 24 products. The Ministry of Economic Development said earlier that the revision of the list was not discussed. Nevertheless, the State Duma proposed to limit the margins on these products at the level of 10-15% The State Duma recommended that the government consider limiting trade margins on essential products at the level of 10-15%. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the decision of the lower house following the results of the government hour with the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev. “Consider the issue of introducing state regulation of trade margins for. Read more...

Ural specialists prepared the first batch of jamon according to the traditional Spanish recipe

  • 22 Dec 10:36

Ural specialists prepared the first batch of jamon according to the traditional Spanish recipe Jamon in Spanish means ham. It took 9 months to salt, dry and ripen the first batch of the popular meat delicacy from the Ural Meat Processing Plant, which is part of the large agro-industrial holding Sibagro. Roman Khairulin, Director of the Ural Meat Processing Plant Sibagro: “We succeeded. This is a jamon from a certain breed of Duroc pork. We took and applied the Spanish classical technology.” Svetlana Pinchuk, chief technologist of the Ural meat-packing plant "Sibagro": "This is a traditional dry salting, with ordinary coarse salt. There is a maturation of the product, enzymes, the meat's own enzymes, begin to work, such. Read more...