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Meat consumption in Russia continues to grow

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The consumption of meat in Russia increased by 4% in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the corresponding period from last year, when it grew by only 1.3%, the general director of the National Union of Swine Breeders from Russia (NSS), Yury Kovalev, said during an event in Moscow, according to agroinvest.ru.

Posted on Dec 16 ,07:51

Meat consumption in Russia continues to grow

Until the end of the year consumption of meat per capita will be 75 kg, an icrease of 3% year-over-year.

The demand for pork in Russia, in the first nine months of 2017, increased by 4.8%, while the demand for poultry rose by 5.6% in the same period compared to 2016.

"Already last year, we noted that pork had become a driver for the meat consumption growth, in 2017 this trend remains at a high level," Mr. Kovalev said." In addition, the positive dynamics of the poultry consumption resumed, while last year this segment had an increase of only 0.6%."

According to the National Union of Swine Breeders, the estimated share of imported pork in consumption will be around 9% compared to that of 8% in 2016. Furthermore, the NSS said that by the end of 2017 Russia will produce 323 thousand tons of pork, up by 14% compared to the production reported last year.

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