Russia: Novosibirsk region may start exporting duck meat

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the region’s self-sufficiency in poultry meat by the end of 2023 is 80%. However, he noted that in 2023, the rate of poultry consumption per person in Russia increased from 31 to 40 kg per year. As for eggs, at the end of 2023, with a norm of 276 eggs per person per year, regional poultry farms produced 379, that is, the supply was 146%. The shortage of eggs and chicken meat in the Novosibirsk region was caused by the rush demand of the population “That is, even despite the repurposing of the Evsinskaya Poultry Farm, we have no serious threats to providing the population with eggs,” said Evgeny Leshchenko, Minister of Agriculture of the Novosibirsk Region, at a press conference. Now, according to him, the selling price of eggs of the first category in the region is 90 rubles per dozen, the second - 72 rubles. The downward trend in prices continues. At the same time, the minister admitted that in stores in the region you can find eggs ...