Russia will increase poultry meat output to 6 million tonnes by 2020 - AgMin
MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Russia will increase the production of poultry meat to six million tonnes by 2020, the country's Agriculture Ministry forecasts.
Citing data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), the ministry says there was 5.1 million live-weight tonnes of poultry meat produced in 2013, which was 42% of total meat production in the country.
The most actively growing poultry meat production areas were Belgorod, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Penza, Chelyabinsk, and Sverdlovsk Regions, along with Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories and Tatarstan.
At present, there are 26.6 kilograms of poultry meat produced per capita per year, and consumption is 29.3 kg. On the domestic market, Russia is already producing the poultry-industry product it needs, and imports account for just 10%, the ministry says.
In recent years, along with the production of broiler meat, large-scale industrial production of other kinds of birds has been developing. Among these producers are the Don River enterprises of the holding Yevrodon, which produces more than 39,000 live-weight tonnes of turkey poults per year. This year, the company Donstar plans to begin raising Pekin ducks. In the first phase, product output will run to 26,000 tonnes. It will increase to 40,000 tonnes down the road.
In Bashkortostan, at the pedigreed fowl farm Blagovarsky, there has been created a scientific-production system that unifies the operations of poultry businesses that raise ducks in 24 Russian regions.
The Agriculture Ministry statement says that Russian poultry-raising has seen investment inflow of more than 300 billion rubles in recent years. This has made it possible to build, upgrade, and reconstruct more than 400 facilities, create 17 new up-to-date and technological enterprises with overall production volume of more than one million tonnes a year.
The ministry says that in recent years the Russian poultry meat market has seen an increase in refrigerated product as a proportion of overall production; it is now 50%-60%.