Russia pork production growth rates were the lowest in 15 years

In 2020, the share of agricultural enterprises accounted for 88.4% of the total pork production in Russia, or 4.8 million tons (this is 11% higher than the level of 2019). This year, the industry hoped that the volume would increase by another 5%, or 230 thousand tons, to 5.07 million tons. But the increase in production turned out to be far from the indicators that the pig breeders were counting on, Nikolai Birulin, the chief expert on market analysis and forecasting of the National Union of Pig Breeders, said at the meeting. At the end of three quarters of 2021, production at agricultural enterprises increased by the same period of 2020 by only 1.7% (or by 58-60 thousand tons), to 3.6 million tons. Production in peasant farms, for comparison , fell over the same period by 3.6% (to 29.9 thousand tons), in personal subsidiary plots - by 5.3% (to 313 thousand tons). The dynamics of production in the country as a whole is positive, but the failure happened in the Central Federal ...