Russia: In the first half of 2021, the export of dairy products increased by 20%

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Russia

Published Jul 30, 2021

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Deliveries of dairy products abroad in January-June 2021 increased by 20% to 110 thousand tons. Export revenue increased by 25% to $ 177 million, and by the middle of the year, positive development is observed in all major categories of dairy products, reports the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Agroexport" under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

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Thus, 15 thousand tons (+ 26%) worth $ 50 million (+ 30%) were shipped to foreign markets of cheese and cottage cheese. Deliveries of ice cream increased by 45% to $ 42 million (16 thousand tons), fermented milk products - by 9.2% to $ 40 million (39 thousand tons), milk and cream - by 0.3% to 27 million dollars (29 thousand tons), whey - 2.4 times to 9.5 million dollars (9 thousand tons), butter - by 16% to 7.4 million dollars (2 thousand tons) ... The main buyers of Russian dairy products are still Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus. Kazakhstan increased purchases by 9.7% to $ 60 million (data on the EAEU for 5 months), Ukraine - by 31% to $ 29 million, Belarus - by 9% to $ 21 million.Exports to the United States increased by 3, 9 times to $ 13 million, mainly due to the increase in ice cream supplies; to Azerbaijan - by 13% to $ 8.3 million. In total, in January-June 2021, Russia supplied to foreign markets more than 30 million tons of agricultural products worth $ 15 billion, ...

Source: Milknews