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...
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...
Egypt rejected a massive cargo of Russian wheat claiming it contains excessive levels of the common grain fungus ergot, which caused a global supply snag on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Egypt is the world’s biggest wheat importer. According to a spokesman from the Egyptian Agriculture Ministry, the country’s authorities have recently held...
In the foothills of Russia’s Urals mountains, a new potash producer is looking to become a major player in the global market for the fertilizer by the middle of the next decade, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Swiss-based EuroChem Group AG is owned by Russian businessman Andrei Melnichenko. The company makes nitrogen...
A new law regulating production, storing and transportation of organic produce in Russia has been signed by President Vladimir Putin, Rusexporter reports.
The decree bans agrochemicals, pesticides, antibiotics growth stimulators and hormones.
The new law, previously approved by both chambers of the Russian Parliament, will enter force on January 1, 2020....
Russian agribusiness concern Rusagro is interested in buying a dairy production facility in the Samara region, an industry source told Interfax, adding that the deal could be announced next week.
Another source told the news agency that the company was negotiating the purchase of production facilities in the Samara...
Russian Fishery Company (RFC) will begin directing attention for Pacific herring sales to Nigeria and other parts of Africa, the company’s CEO said at the Seafood Expo Global in Brussels earlier this month, according to Sea Food Source.
“Traditionally, China was our main export market for Pacific herring. But Africa...
Russia will use subsidies for rail transport from remote regions and other previously used mechanisms to regulate grain prices in the country, the Agriculture Ministry said last week, according to Reuters.
Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev was previously quoted as saying the ministry aimed to regulate domestic grain prices to...
Renewed rumors that Russia may curb wheat exports on top of technical buying pushed wheat futures sharply higher in global markets Wednesday, while corn and soybean futures followed, the latter on a light technical bounce that overcame prospects for a record-large harvest, Agriculture.com reports, citing Reuters news agency.
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The largest vertically integrated meat producer in Russia, Cherkizovo, has said it plans to produce 1.1 million tons of meat in live weight in 2019, which is 19% higher than the previous year, Agroinvestitor reports.
The company said it would become the first meat producer in the post-Soviet era...
