Production, domestic consumption and export of meat products are growing in Russia - Forbes

Our country is among the top 5 global producers of pork and broiler meat. In Russia, the indicators of the meat industry are growing: production, domestic consumption, exports. Industry participants believe that this is not a random surge, production and consumption still have potential for growth, and exports will develop. The Russian Federation accounted for about 4% of the global production of major types of meat in 2023; the country is among the top 5 global producers of pork and broiler meat. Yulia Tsyndrina, an expert at the Agroanalytics Center meat market, shared this data with Forbes. “At the end of last year, the production of livestock and poultry for slaughter (live weight) in farms of all categories reached 16.5 million tons, which was 2% higher than in 2022,” adds Tsyndrina, citing Rosstat data. “In slaughter weight, the result is 11.7 million tons,” says Sergei Yushin, head of the National Meat Association (NMA). According to the information and analytical agency ...