Reindeer meat production in Yakutia will allow the region to enter the international market

The Deputy Minister for the Development of the Arctic and the Affairs of the Peoples of the North of the Republic of Sakha believes that it is necessary to create and implement mobile equipment for slaughtering and processing reindeer in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

The production and processing of deer meat and fur according to European standards in the Arctic zone of Yakutia will allow developing exports from the region and entering the international market. This opinion was expressed on Tuesday by Deputy Minister for the Development of the Arctic and Affairs of the Peoples of the North of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Mikhail Pogodaev.

“I think that we need to adopt such technologies in our Arctic regions, where, as you know, we don’t have infrastructure, and we have to drive hundreds of kilometers of reindeer in order to slaughter. Accordingly, the slaughter weight of reindeer is lost, there are certain problems. And here [we need] technologies according to the European standard, and it will be possible to produce these products on the international market, for export," he said during a discussion club dedicated to the primary processing and storage of bioresources in the Arctic, at the Project Office for the Development of the Arctic (PORA) .

Pogodaev believes that it is necessary to create and implement mobile equipment for the slaughter and processing of reindeer in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. "In general, I think that we need to work on the development of specialized technologies for slaughter and processing of reindeer products, which will be designed for reindeer. Because now <...> we are forced to install slaughter shops <...> and shops for processing, which are sharpened for the slaughter of cattle or pigs.<...> Today's technologies, they do not meet these requirements, [European standards]" - he explained.

The Deputy Minister added that at the moment, in the Nizhnekolymsky district of Yakutia, it is planned to create infrastructure for the mobile slaughter of deer, as well as the creation of infrastructure for processing reindeer breeding and fishing products, followed by the use of the Northern Sea Route to export these products to foreign markets. Pogodaev noted that design estimates for the project are currently being developed.

The Northern Sea Route runs along the northern shores of Russia across the seas of the Arctic Ocean and connects the European and Far Eastern ports of Russia, the mouths of navigable Siberian rivers into a single transport system. The length of the path is 5.6 thousand km from the Kara Gate to the Bay of Providence.

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