Russian company Aquatrade, owned by billionaire Andrey Katkov, is planning to invest $7.7 million into a new land-based salmon and trout farm in the Leningrad region, the Fish Site reports.
Katkov, who is the owner of Judo Yavara-Neva, one of the largest networks of judo clubs in Russia, and a...
A shortage in the supply of quality potatoes is resulting in an increase in prices in this segment, EastFruit analysts say.
According to the analysts’ daily monitoring, the limited supply of high-quality potatoes, as well as the increased demand for these products by wholesale companies and retail chains, has allowed...
The growing trade war between the United States and China could benefit Russia’s agricultural giant RusAgro, CGTN reports. One of the country’s biggest agriculture companies says they are now targeting China as a key export destination.
According to RusAgro’s CEO, Maxim Basov, the company was about to sign its first...
Russia’s Phosagro, one of the world's biggest fertilizer producers, has signed a cooperation agreement in the field of sustainable soil management with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), RIA news agency reports.
"Our strategy is completely consistent with the goals and objectives of the FAO in terms...
The authorities of Russia’s Volgograd Region said this month that 18,560 tons of greenhouse vegetables were produced in the region since the beginning of 2020, almost twice the amount as in the same period last year.
According to data provided by the Agricultural Committee of Volgograd Region, the main share...
According to estimates by the biggest tobacco producer in Russia, Japan Tobacco International (JTI), the illegal trade in tobacco in the country has grown from 1-2% of the market to 9%, TASS news agency reports.
"Illicit tobacco market in Russia has grown up from 1-2% to 9% in 2018," JTI Vice...
Finnish food producers that came under Russia’s food embargo four years ago, hope to return to the Russian market, Esa Wrang, head of the Food from Finland program has told Russian media.
According to RIA news agency, Wrang added that the Finnish companies would like to return to Russia even though they have...
Azerbaijan won’t ban meat imports from Russia, since it doesn’t import poultry meat and products from the Russian region of Kostroma, where bird flu was detected, AzerNews informs.
Yolchu Khanvali, head of the press service of the State Veterinary Control Service under the Agriculture Ministry of Azerbaijan told Trend last...
The value of tomato imports to Russia from Turkey reached $47.52 million between January and March, a five-fold increase compared to the same period last year, Turkish news outlet Gunes reported.
According to information compiled from Turkey’s Aegean Exporters' Associations data, Turkey earned $292 million in revenue from tomato...
The total amount allocated to support the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation in 2019 may amount to 302 billion rubles ($4.57 billion), the country’s deputy minister of Agriculture Elena Fastova told reporters, according to TASS.
To implement the measures of the State program for the development of agriculture...
