At the end of the year, poultry meat exports may reach last year's level

Beef exports also decreased over the reporting period - from 27.3 thousand tons to just over 19.9 thousand tons. However,  the ROSSELKHOZNADZOR  is actively working to diversify the buyer countries and products supplied. So, this year Oman was opened for Russian beef. Daushev also said that the volume of pork supplies to foreign markets in January-August increased to 104.7 thousand tons (last year - 96.7 thousand tons). The increase was mainly due to Vietnam, Armenia, Serbia. Deliveries to Lebanon have also begun. According to Daushev, Rosselkhoznadzor is actively working to open up new directions, especially pork exports to CHINA . The volume of EXPORT of dairy products corresponds to 2022 - 97.8 thousand tons. Active work is also underway in this categoryto open new markets and expand the range of products supplied. 

During the conference, the General DIRECTOR of the National Union of Poultry Breeders Sergey Lakhtyukhov said that since 2019, the export of poultry MEAT has grown by 68%. “We occupy 1% of export sales of meat products (among world exporters), but for poultry meat we occupy almost 2.5% - we are in the top 10 world exporters of poultry meat,” he added, noting that, for another 10 years ago, RUSSIA accounted for less than 0.1% of the global market. 

According to Lakhtyukhov, state support for exports had an impact on the entire poultry industry. Among the main measures, he notes, firstly, concessional lending under government decree No. 512. “Investment in the industry, its development was due to export concessional lending. We are faced with colossal sanctions pressure from unfriendly states. The support made it possible to mitigate the risks that we faced at the beginning of last year,” said Lakhtyukhov. Now exporters have overcome difficulties and are working to develop new markets in friendly countries. 

Another key measure, according to Lakhtyukhov, is to subsidize the costs associated with logistics. Now the poultry industry has every opportunity to increase export supplies, but sometimes the cost of transportation is approximately equal to the cost of the product itself. Just in such cases, subsidizing is an excellent support, the effect of which should not only be preserved, but also the limits on it should be increased, the HEAD of the union is sure.