Russia increases meat exports

The export of meat and finished meat products from Russia in the first seven months of this year increased by 3% to 351.2 thousand tons, the press service of the Rosselkhoznadzor reports. For the same period last year, deliveries amounted to 340.3 thousand tons. The largest increase was shown by the export of beef - it increased 2.6 times - from 6.7 thousand tons to 17.4 thousand tons. China became the main importer of Russian beef. , which purchased 11.2 thousand tons of these products, as well as Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. Pork export increased from 62.9 thousand tons to 79.9 thousand tons. Vietnam became its largest buyer - the country imported 40.2 thousand tons of products. Also, the top three importers of Russian pork are Ukraine (18.9 thousand tons) and Belarus (13.5 thousand tons). The export of horsemeat from Russia, due to the low base, increased 33.1 times - from 24 tons to 796 tons. Most of these products were exported to Kazakhstan (751 tons), and there were also ...