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...
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...
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...
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...
Russian turkey producer Damate is planning the biggest kosher meat processing plant in the country, targeted at establishing exports to Israel, the company revealed, according to Global Meat News.
The facility, built in the Kamensky district of Russia’s Penza region, will have a production capacity of 70,000 tons of various turkey meat...
Farmers around Europe, but especially in France, will be the hardest hit if Russia succeeds in breaking into the fourth-biggest wheat importing market, UkrAgroKonsult reports.
France is currently the top supplier of wheat to Algeria, which buys huge amounts of grain to feed its population. But there’s growing speculation this...
Exports of Indian table grapes to Russia and Sri Lanka were stopped midway through the season over stronger pest control requirements from the destination countries, the Indian Express reported.
According to Vilas Shinde, chairman of the Sahyadri Farms, based in the city of Nashik, plant quarantine issues have been raised...
The German holding company of Russian dairy producer EkoNiva Group, Ekosem-Agrar AG, has increased the availability of its dairy products in Russian retail stores, according to Dairy Reporter.
Since the beginning of May, the EkoNiva product range has been available in 200 Russian and international retail chains in Greater...
