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Russia reports strong progress for meat exports

 By Vladislav Vorotnikov  05-Feb-2018 - Last updated on 05-Feb-2018 at 11:14 GMT

 https://www.globalmeatnews.com/Article/2018/02/05/Russia-reports-strong-progress-for-meat-exports

Russia has increased poultry exports by 40% year on year

Russia exported 247,300 tonnes (t) of meat in 2017, up 70% compared to 2016, state veterinary service Rosselkhoznadzor has reported.

Some of this increase was achieved because of the increasing number of countries allowing imports of Russian meat over the past year. According to official information from Russia

Ministry of Agriculture, the country exported meat and meat products to35 countries in 2017, compared to only 23 in 2016.

 Speaking at the Russian Parliament on 17 January, Russian minister of agriculture Alexander Tkachev praised the strong growth in meat exports in 2017. The anticipated future increase in overseas markets for meat

would also help Russia to double its total exports of agricultural products during the next few years, taking it to US$40 billion by 2025, Tkachev claimed.

 It is understood that meat exports from Russia increased significantly from current levels when the country was authorised to export to China? according to Tkachev.

 Chicken is pushed out

Russia exported 104,400t of poultry meat in 2017, up 40% compared to 2016, Lyubov Burdienko, commercial director of the Russian consulting agency EMEAT, told GlobalMeatNews,  The strong rise in exports meant

meat producers from Russia reached a new stage in their development and would probably keep increasing supplies abroad, she added.

 Almost half (45%) of poultry exported from Russia in 2017 went to Ukraine and another 41% to Vietnam, Burdienko estimated. Meanwhile, 98.1% of exported poultry was chicken and 1.3% was turkey, she estimated. The largest exporters were Cherkizovo, GAP Resource, Prioskolie and Miratorg.

despite a recovery in consumer purchasing power, Burdienko commented.

 *Pork lags behind*

Russia exported 21,000t of pork in 2017, up 50% compared to the previous year, Tkachev added. Exports of beef also jumped by 70% year-on-year to 1,700t.

 However, Russia failed to significantly increase exports of pork. The Russian Union of Pig Producers (RUPP) was expecting exports to reach 70-75,000t in 2017. Yuri Kovalev, chairman of RUPP, had previously forecast that, based on a strong rise in exports in 2017, Russia could increase exports of pork further to about 85,000t in 2018.

 RUPP has not commented on the weak exports of pork in 2017, despite a request from GlobalMeatNews?

 It was also estimated that Russia exported more than 100,000t of various meat products, including products such as chicken feet, to the countries of south-east Asia, although no details on those export figures are

available so far.