Friday, April 19, 2024
The experiment on the online sale of Russian wines is postponed to the end of March, said Viktor Yevtukhov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. On the sidelines of the international e-commerce and retail forum Ecomference Rupost Retail Week, he recalled that the Ministry of Finance...
A Japanese fishermen's association said Wednesday that one of cod fishing boats was seized by Sakhalin authorities at sea and taken it to a Russian-controlled island in the Kuril archipelago, for which the two countries have a long-standing dispute, Kyodo news agency reported. Six fishermen were on the boat but...
A Russian company called Greenwise is now shaking up the global faux meat sector, with its three young founders figuring out how to make a plant-based meat replacement that tastes like the real thing, Meduza writes. The company manufactures its own products in a small town called Maloyaroslavets, about a...
The Russian Ministry of Agriculture will be able to reallocate food supplies to different regions of the country in case of necessity, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said on Wednesday, according to Dairy News. "The Deputy Prime Minister particularly noted that food stocks were formed in the country and there...
Russian grain exports to China have hit the million ton mark for the first time this crop year, according to the country’s veterinary and phytosanitary agency, Rosselkhoznadzor. Official data shows that from July 1, 2017 to May 15, 2018, a total of 1.23 million tons of grain from Russia was...
Eight Russian seafood companies will build new production facilities in exchange for quotas for Atlantic cod, haddock, and other fish species, assigned to them by Russia's federal fishery agency, Rosrybolovstvo, Dp.ru reports. The total investment in the new facilities will exceed 5.4 billion rubles ($81.5 million), according to the agency. Rybotorgovaya Setj...
The Eucofel association, which brings together national and regional fruit & vegetables producers federations and companies from Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Portugal, has called on Brussels to resume dialogue with Russia to try to reopen the market for European agricultural food products, as a measure to...
Trading companies RIF, Aston, the Russian grain office of Glencore, and a subsidiary of United Grain Co. have signed a memorandum creating the Russian Union of Grain Exporters (UGC), Kommersant reports. “Its creation will help to improve the coordination of grain exporters among themselves and with government authorities,” the founders...
Russia is not considering restricting the supply of food from China over coronavirus fears, the deputy head of the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, according to Russian news agencies. “We are not considering it,” Maxim Uvaydov said, adding that there has not yet been any information about whether the coronavirus can...
Continuous outbreaks of swine flu are forcing China to look for pork alternatives, and Russia is looking to seize on the opportunity for more poultry exports, Bloomberg reports. Analysts say China could lose 30% of its pigs to African swine flu, a deadly disease which has spread to neighboring countries...