Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Argentina has expressed interest in the possibility of game meat deliveries from Russia, head of the Russian agricultural watchdog and chairman of the Russian-Argentine inter-governmental commission Sergey Dankvert said on Tuesday, according to TASS. "Argentina expressed interest in importing game meat. This can include different types of produce, starting from...
Moscow and Riyadh are discussing plans for making Saudi Arabia a hub for Russian agricultural products, according to a Russian official, RT reports. “Saudi Arabia is a traditional crossroads of trade routes, it has a convenient geographical location. Since ancient times, people who lived here, traded with the surrounding countries,...
Indonesia imported 1.14 million tonnes of wheat from Russia from July last year to the end of March continues according to official Russian reports. This continues the Southeast Asian country’s newly formed love affair with Russian wheat, Stock & Land reports. While Indonesia’s current import figures are still dwarfed by...
Milk production in Russia in 2018 amounted to 30.6 million tons, which is 455 thousand tons or 1.5% more than in 2017, according to data published by the federal state statistics service Rosstat. The output from agricultural organizations increased by 3.6% to 16.2 million tons, while farm production was...
Russia’s import substitution, planned as the country’s response to Western sanctions, is yet to yield tangible results in the horticultural sector, Fresh Plaza writes citing official data. According to the news outlet, fruit imports in Russia continue to grow steadily, despite the very rapid expansion of orchard area and an...
Frozen poultry exports from China's eastern Shandong province to Russia have resumed, after an outbreak of avian influenza prevented Chinese frozen poultry from accessing the Russian market, Xinhua reported. The move came after the protocols on veterinary and phytosanitary requirements for the supply of frozen poultry meat and dairy...
Russian wheat exports for the 2017/18 year were revised 1.5 million mt higher to 35 million mt in the USDA WASDE January report, with weather conditions being favorable to port loadings in January, Platts informs. Russia's record harvest, also revised up, by 2 million mt to 85 million mt, has...
Russia’s veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed temporary restrictions on the import of pork and pig products from Mongolia due to outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF), known also as Montgomery disease, the agency said in a press release, according to RBC. A document signed by the Deputy Head of the agency,...
Legal and illegal logging by Chinese companies in Russia’s Siberia is destroying the vast region’s forests, RFE/RL writes in a recent article. According to the report, a “war” is going on between locals trying to protect the Siberian snow forest, the taiga, and illegal loggers who are selling trees in...
Negotiations on the supply of wheat from Russia and Kazakhstan to Iran have reached a deadlock, as the parties could not agree on financing, Reuters reports. The negotiations on the supply of Russian and Kazakh wheat to Iranian flour mills began six months ago. "The Iranian side had its own condition...