May 2018

According to the analytic report of marketing specialists, the sausage market decline was 12% last year. This decline is significant, especially considering the steady consumption in this sector during the last few years. Russian consumers use all types of convenience foods in their diet: Vienna sausages, bratwurst, ham, raw smokedRead More →

Polina Semyonova, CEO of the Union of Food Ingredient Manufacturers shared her view on this situation and talked about the perspectives for food ingredient production support. The problem with the production of food additives has reached the national level. Currently, Russian manufacturers produce a very short list of food additivesRead More →

Dmitriy Medvedev, Chairman of the Russian Government held a business meeting with Ilya Shestakov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia and Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery. The topic of the discussion was the fishery industry performance results in 2017 and its development prospects. “The catching of fish byRead More →

The livestock industry has kept the positive momentum of meat production, while most of the growth is due to the high results of pig and poultry breeding. According to the public affairs office of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, last year Russian manufacturers have produced 14.6 mlnRead More →

According to the public affairs office, Dmitriy Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, will hold a meeting in Murmansk on the fish processing industry and meet with the region’s governor Marina Kovtun on Friday. Among the participants in the meeting will be Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Vice Prime Minister of theRead More →

Kursk Meat Processing Plant (a part of the “AgroPromkomplektacia” Holding Group) is expanding its production capacity and prepares to open a new field of activity, i.e. pig head deboning line. The new line will allow the plant to get up to 36% of raw meat from each head, which canRead More →

In the first quarter of 2018, the meat import to Ukraine reached a 5-year high. This information was provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). According to Andrey Pankratov, Agricultural Market Analyst and FAO National Advisor, the first three months of this year showed anRead More →

Since the beginning of this year, the region supplied the former Soviet Union and other foreign countries with 158 batches of animal products and raw materials with the total volume of 4,886 tonnes. According to the results of the first quarter of this year, the Novosibirsk Oblast exported around 45,000Read More →