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The Rosselkhoznadzor Office has identified wild boars and feeding grounds in five-kilometer zones around large pig breeding complexes in the Oryol and Kursk regions. The department is concerned about this situation, since it is wild boars that are the natural reservoir of the African swine fever virus. Since the beginning of 2......

Net profit of ROS AGRO PLC for 2021 under IFRS increased by 71% to 41.4 billion rubles. ($563 million) compared to a year earlier. Revenue increased by 40% to RUB 222.9 bn. ($3.03 billion). Adjusted EBITDA amounted to RUB 48.06 billion. ($653 million), an increase of 50%. This was said in a statement. Rusagro Group of Companies is one of the largest vertically integrated agricultural holdings in R...

On the traditional Livestock Day of the Kuban, the best farms and representatives of the industry were honored. The Rassvet agricultural enterprise, which is part of the Progress Agro Group of Companies, was awarded a diploma in the nomination "The best pig farm in the Krasnodar Territory in 2021". Irina Kremleva, Director of Pig Breeding at Rassvet, received her diploma to much fanfare and applau...

Farmers have been complaining for months about high production costs, and as the Russian-Ukrainian crisis escalates, the problem has become even more pressing. Agriculture ministers and European lawmakers are concerned about the situation. Euractiv writes that for several months the prices for related products in the agricultural sector have remained high and continue to grow, mainly due to the in...

Igor Brylo Minister of Agriculture and Food A year ago, at the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, a number of tasks were set for the agro-industrial complex. The growth of production and exports, the introduction of new technologies, the attraction of investments, food security, social issues - all these areas are relevant in today's difficult conditions. The new Minister of Agriculture and Food Ig...

February 25, Minsk. 2021 was a successful year for Belarusian farmers, despite extreme weather and external circumstances. This was announced in an interview to a BelTA correspondent by the Minister of Agriculture and Food"2021 is the first year of the state program for the development of agricultural business for 2......

In connection with the escalation of the military conflict in the Donbass, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, founder of Veles Meat Processing Plant LLC, member of the board of the National Union of Meat Processors of Russia and secretary of the regional branch of the United Russia party, Alexander Iltyakov, said that he was ready to accommodate and employ refugees in the villag...

February 22, Minsk. In 2021, Belarus ensured an increase in food exports of about $1 billion, Minister of Agriculture and Food Igor Brylo said during a meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, BelTA has learned."In 2021, the export of food products and agricultural raw materials increased by 17.3% by 2......

Production costs have cut profits for the Spanish pig industry. Although the country is currently the largest pig producer and exporter in the EU, with a 5% increase in the country's pig herd, rising production costs, mainly for feed, electricity and labor, are affecting the sector. From January to November 2......

Meatpacking plants must fully pass on the profits from rising pork prices to livestock farmers, the Westphalian-Lippe Agricultural Association (WLV) said. This was reported on February 19 by the German agricultural portal TopAgrar. After several months of rising prices for pork, the association still assesses the economic situation of livestock breeders as very serious. “The recent increase in pur...

Lean pork futures hit a six-month high. Pig futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) rose 6.4% on average on Friday, traders said, with the next-month contract reaching its highest level in six months, supported by the cash market. April futures rose 7.2 cents to 109.4 cents a pound, hitting a new contract high and briefly above the upper end of the 2......

High feed costs, low pig prices and the problems caused by coronavirus and African swine fever are forcing many pig farmers to cut production. Many pig farmers in the European Union have apparently reacted to the sharp rise in production costs with persistently low producer prices last year and have markedly reduced their herds. In any case, this is indicated by the first preliminary results of th...

Bolivia has been increasing pig production year after year since 2000. Production reached 117,676 tons in 2021, up 85.6% from the start of the century, according to the country's Ministry of Rural Development and Lands. This is remarkable given that Bolivian producers began to view pig farming as a profitable economic activity in the 198......

British pig farmers are in a 'desperate' situation with thousands of healthy animals being culled and producers leaving the industry, a recent summit on the crisis reported. Farmers demonstrated ahead of a meeting in York on Thursday, when industry representatives met with the Department of the Environment (Defra) about the challenges facing the pig sector. The National Pig Producing Association (...

Last week, most of the committee's political groups sent a letter to the Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, asking the European Commission to take "immediate initiatives aimed at alleviating the negative situation and foreseeing serious shocks in the pig sector." In response to this request, the Commissioner explained why the Commission was opposed and replied that although 13 Mem...

The objective of the Institute is to promote scientific and technical research and make it more accessible to small and medium-sized manufacturers. The new agency will play a major role in promoting greater standardization of health standards and good animal husbandry practices, which will directly benefit domestic and international consumers. With the establishment of this institution, routes wil...

The law on the ban on pig breeding in private farmsteads is not going to be adopted in Bashkiria. This was reported on February 10 by the press service of the state assembly of the region. It is reported that members of the committee of the state assembly of the republic on agrarian issues, ecology and nature management studied the proposal of the union of meat producers and processors of Bashkiri...

Since the beginning of 2022, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Kirov Region, the Udmurt Republic and the Perm Territory has inspected the shipment of 60 tons of pig products from the Udmurt Republic to Mongolia. 12 veterinary certificates were issued for each type of meat products (bacon, skin, brisket, pork cheek, sterno-rib boneless cut). All controlled goods are recognized as safe in v...

On the territory of the Pskov region, due to African swine fever (ASF), the wild boar population was reduced to 500 individuals. Viktor Musatov, Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources and Ecology, announced this on the air of one of the regional radio stations. According to him, in 2021, the ASF virus was introduced into the wild. At the same time, the situation has developed in such a way...

In the region, ASF foci are currently active on the territory of the Yaroslavl and Danilovsky districts, as well as the urban district of Pereslavl-Zalessky. In February 2022, it is planned to lift quarantine in the Danilovsky district after the completion of anti-epizootic measures. This was reported in the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the Yaroslavl Region. No new cases of African swine f...

France's Agriculture and Food Minister Julien Denormandie announced an emergency plan to save the pig sector amid an assessment that at least 30% of French pig farms could disappear by 2023. This was announced on January 31 by the press service of the ministry. Denormandy brought together the French pig industry and agricultural banks to launch a coherent route out of the crisis. It provides, in p...

What is the future of pig farming in Europe. Yury Kovalev, General Director of the National Union of Pig Breeders, explains Pig farmers in Europe are protesting and demanding government help. In the two years of the pandemic, the industry has been severely affected by high feed costs, African plague, and declining exports to China . But it is still too early to bury the industry - there is still a...

Good news came from the veterinary department: the governor of the Kostroma region, Sergei Sitnikov, has just signed a decree to lift the quarantine for African swine fever (ASF), which was introduced in the Kostroma and Susaninsky districts in December last year. Then the ASF virus was found in the carcasses of two wild boars killed by hunters near the village of Kharino, Kostroma region. After t...

Pig farmers in the UK fear ruin as a shortage of butchers delays slaughter. The British pig industry has said it is in danger of collapse after an exodus of Eastern European workers led to a shortage of butchers and more than 170,000 pigs being slaughtered behind. The National Pig Breeding Association and the National Farmers Union said the emergency visa measures meant to mitigate the effects of ...

High grain prices are forcing Estonian pig breeders to think about stopping or significantly reducing their activities. The Haameri farm in Põlvamaa, which kept 5,000 pigs, is now selling its last piglets and will stop operating in the spring. According to the owner of the farm, Ave Haamer, the main reason for the cessation of activities was the high cost of feed – grain prices almost doubled in a...

In total, over 26 thousand tons of this type of meat were produced in the region last year. The growth in pork production in Primorsky Krai in 2021 amounted to 260% and poultry - 60%, Governor Oleg Kozhemyako said in his report at a meeting on the results of the socio-economic development of Primorsky Krai in 2......

Rusagro's revenue for the first 12 months of 2021 increased by 39% to RUB 243.1 billion, follows from the operating results of the group. All business segments of the company demonstrated positive dynamics. Most significantly - by 57% to 125.2 billion rubles. — increased revenue of the oil and fat segment. In the sugar segment, revenue was 29% higher than in 2......

In 2021, the number of pigs in the region decreased by 22.1%, to 1,125.1 thousand heads. As the press service of Pskovstat reported, at the end of December 2021, the number of cattle in the Pskov region was 60.5 thousand heads (-7.9%), including 30.2 thousand cows (-8.5%). The number of small cattle (goats and sheep) last year decreased by 9% - to 29.4 thousand. In the summer and autumn of 2.........

“Government support measures for Chinese pork producers are expected to lead to an increase in livestock numbers and a decrease in imports this year,” IndexBox said. China , the world's largest pork market, imported 2.8 million tons of pork worth $8 billion from January to August 2021, according to a recent IndexBox report. Compared to the same period a year earlier, the volume of imports remained...

Owners of personal subsidiary farms who have switched from pig breeding to alternative areas of animal husbandry will receive a new subsidy from the government of the Tula region in 2022. Details of the Tula news service were reported in the Ministry of Agriculture of the region. According to the ministry, support will be provided in accordance with Resolution No. 519 dated August 23, 2......