Cherkizovo, Russia’s biggest meat producer, said on Tuesday that it plans to buy regional farming company Altayski Broiler from its competitor Prioskolye, Reuters reported.
The final price would be established after due diligence process is completed, the company said.
“The inclusion of such a big regional producer in the Cherkizovo structure... would...
In an effort to promote its viniculture and follow countries like Georgia into the international markets, the Russian government is offering support to the country’s wine producers, Intellinews reports.
The Ministry of Finance wants to use grape as an instrument of tax support for winemakers by simplifying taxes to a...
Russian agriculture markets research and consulting company SovEcon announced it has cut its forecast for Russia’s 2018 grain crop to 113.9 million tons from 118.6 million tons due to dry weather.
Wheat output is forecast at 69.6 million tons, down from 72.5 million tons, while barley was revised downward to 16.9...
Russian customs agents prevented the import of more than 344 tons of quarantinable products (fruits and vegetables) from Kazakhstan, the press service of consumer protection authority Rospotrebnadzor said in a statement, according to Total.
"From July 3 to July 7, 17 attempts to smuggle more than 344 tons of quarantine products...
A delegation of 30 South African farming families has arrived in Russia's Stavropol region, known for its agriculture, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The white farmers, descendants of Dutch colonizers in South Africa, are known as Afrikaners, and they have been facing violent attacks and death threats at home.
According to the delegation, up...
Cherkizovo, the second-biggest broiler meat producer in Russia, has culled all poultry stock at the Vertunoskyi poultry farm in Penza Oblast due to an outbreak of Avian influenza, Larisa Mokshina, a spokesperson for the company, has told Global Meat News.
According to Mokshina, that was an isolated farm producing hatching...
A cargo of Russian wheat is expected to leave the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad for Brazil next week, Russia's food safety watchdog told Reuters on Friday.
The 25,000 tonnes of Russian wheat is the first such deal since both countries’ governments finalized talks to liberalize bilateral grain and meat trade...
For the first time, Russia is the top supplier of wheat to Vietnam, the seventh-biggest market in Asia, Black Sea Grain reports. Exports jumped 13-fold in the 10 months through April, compared with the previous season, according to UkrAgroConsult.
The increase followed Vietnam scrapping an import tax on Russian grain...
Russia has extended the zero export duty on wheat until July 1, 2019, the government said on its website Friday, according to Regnum.
The country canceled the export duty on grain on September 26, 2016, to be effective until July 1, 2018. But in view of high stocks and in order...
Russia’s ministry of agriculture has approved a $4 billion credit line destined for new projects in the domestic pig industry, Pig Progress reports.
The money will become available in the form of soft loans with subsidized interest rates. The policy was made public by Yuri Kovalev, chairman of the Russian...
