A U.S. seafood industry group is concerned that President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs against Chinese goods will help their main global competitor, the Russian pollock industry, Undercurrent news reports.
Trump’s administration is engaged in a trade war with China and plans to impose additional 10% to 25% tariffs on 6,031...
Russia’s biggest beef producer, Miratorg, has teamed up with renowned Russian restaurateur ArkadyNovikov to launch franchise program of the Farshburger restaurants network, Meatinfo.ru reported.
The move will multiply the number of restaurants and “stimulate the development of high-quality catering in the Russian regions,” the company said in a statement.
Miratorg opened...
After a record harvest last year, Russia increased its wheat export by a third and emerged as the leading world grain exporter in recent months. Together with other former Soviet Union countries’ rising exports, the global wheat market is now in a situation reminiscent of Soviet-era dominance, Bloomberg reports.
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Swiss-based, Russian-owned mineral fertilizer company EuroChem has sold its Ukrainian subsidiary, Agrocenter EuroChem-Ukraine, as the country’s government imposed an embargo on the import of Russian fertilizer, The Kyiv Post reports.
The firm, which is owned by Russian industrialist Andrei Melnichenko sold its asset to a company “connected to the subsidiary’s...
Even as Russia goes on top of the world’s wheat exporters list and Australia ups its output, World wheat production will fall in 2018-19 for the first time in six years, the International Grain Council said.
The intergovernmental group, in its first forecast for wheat output next season, pegged it...
Russia, currently the world's largest exporter of wheat, is preparing to press the EU and the United States even more, renewing its attempts to open the most complex markets for deliveries, Investing.com reports.
Success in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Algeria should finally consolidate Russia's leading position in the Middle East...
Russian project iFarm has raised a $1 million round led by Gagarin Capital in support of their urban farming technologies. The iFarm Project’s fully automated vertical farms and year-round greenhouses enable fresh produce to be grown directly in the city, close to consumers, Tech.eu reported.
According to the company, iFarm...
Industrial pig farming in Primorsky Krai in Russia’s Far East region is under the threat of being ruined by Foot-and-mouth (FMD), regional governor Oleg Kozhemyako has said, according to Global Meat News.
Speaking at a meeting with the regional parliament in late April, Kozhemyako revealed that around 100,000 head of...
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...
A strong demand for high-quality carrots in Russia has allowed producers to further raise prices of the vegetable, according to analysts from the EastFruit project. Carrots accounted for 10% of Russia’s vegetable imports last year.
Last week, amid a general shortage of supply, local farmers offer high-quality carrots at...
