The high cost and complexity of consumption, why in Russia they eat little fish?
Russia
Published Sep 28, 2022
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Russia has a record consumption of meat - 77-78 kg per person per year, but we eat only 22 kg of fish per capita. Buying a frozen pollock carcass, which you still have to tinker with at home, and even at a rather high price, is not interesting to anyone.
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According to the chairman of the Fish Union, Alexander Panin, the share of spending on fish in the basket of Russians is only about 2%. There is growth, but not due to an increase in consumption, but due to an increase in prices for fish products, which are becoming more expensive at a faster pace. Thus, over the past three years, Russians' spending on fish products has grown from 433 to 557 rubles per kg. Fish is becoming less affordable as household income growth has not kept pace with rising fish prices. However, Rosselkhozbank claims that fish consumption in the country is growing and will continue to grow - in 2020, Russians ate 20 kg per person per year, by 2024 consumption could reach 24 kg per person, Andrey Dalnov, head of the RSHB Center for Industry Expertise, estimated at the International Fish Forum . Aquaculture will be one of the growth drivers: of all animal protein sources, the growth rate of fish production (5% per year) will be second only to turkey (7% per ...
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