In the first quarter, Russia maintained pork exports at last year's level.

Moscow. April 9. INTERFAX.RU - In the first quarter of this year, the Russian Federation exported over 70 thousand tons of pork, which corresponds to the indicator of the same period last year. This is reported by Rosselkhoznadzor, citing data from the "VetIS" information system. Almost half of the shipments went to Belarus - 34.1 thousand tons, which is 13.6% more than a year earlier. China received 24.6 thousand tons of pork products, almost twice as much as in the same period last year (about 12.9 thousand tons). In particular, China increased pork purchases by almost 1.7 times to 11.1 thousand tons and pork by-products by 2.2 times to 13.5 thousand tons. Rosselkhoznadzor also reported that the export of food by-products of small and large cattle and pigs amounted to over 24.2 thousand tons, which is 21.6% more than a year earlier (over 19.9 thousand tons). Beef exports amounted to almost 6.3 thousand tons. The main buyers were China (3.2 thousand tons) and Saudi Arabia (over 1 ...