Russia will increase milk exports by almost a third in 2023

At the end of last year, Russia's supplies of dairy products abroad increased by almost a third. As Finmarket reports, the head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Dmitry Patrushev, spoke about this at the XV Congress of the National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloka). The minister did not specify how much this amounted to in kind. However, he recalled that in general our country imports this food to 73 countries. The latest of them to become new importers over the past year, according to the minister, were Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Pakistan. In Hong Kong, in particular, there is a historically high demand for many items of these products from Russia (including milk itself, as well as ice cream and a number of others). For two more countries, additional demand factors were poverty and a generally low standard of living, aggravated by a difficult military situation. Dairy farming strives towards export - Ministry of Agriculture Patrushev especially emphasized that domestic ...