Thursday, October 21, 2010

Russia may not import poultry meat in 2011

According to Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, “from 2011 onwards Russia can survive without chicken meat imports”. The declaration was made during the Liberal-Democrat Party meeting, when the Russian budgets for 2011 and for 2012-2013 were discussed. As reported by Ria Novosti and Itar Tass news agency, Putin has remarked the Russian chicken meat production is now able to guaranteeing the country’s self-sufficiency, thus making imports unnecessary.
Still according to Ria Novosti, Putin reminded that over the last few years the domestic chicken meat production grew in excess of 70% while pork production grew 39%, “what represents a significant growth under any economy’s stand point and for the entire agribusiness sector, as well”. To make clear the country has reached its self-sufficiency, Putin remarked that “till recently Russia used to import 1.5 million MT of chicken meat from US annually” and complemented saying that “in 2010 the imports will barely reach 300 thousand MT”.

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