In the first 4 months of the year 2016 Russia expects a surplus development on pork and poultry meat has Russia its meat production increased by 13.5%. Focuses on the pig and poultry sectors. If the development continues, a surplus will emerge in a short time, which must be reduced by exports.
State subsidies to the meat industry , with the aim of are background of this expansion in the next 5 years 1 million tonnes to produce meat. Industrial large-scale plants are the target group of the subsidies. Many small and medium-sized producers do benefit from the promotion. Therefore there remain several hundred such companies on the route which is fear. Even now, the producer prices fallen by 30% for pigs for a range of facilities are no longer cover its costs. Prices from €2.24 / kg are not sufficient for Russian conditions under current conditions.
The looming surplus development is also a result of the decline in consumption, which suddenly occurred with the Russian ban on imports of food products for Western countries. A replacement for these imports could not be made because of the strong purchasing power decline of the Russian economy and currency. The political objectives set primarily on generating your own with the aim of a high degree of self-sufficiency.
The import ban until 2017 to continue the Russian Government's recent announcement is considered a response to the continued restrictions of the G 7-States against Russia for purely political reasons.
The Western countries have long found alternative outlets in China and elsewhere. The rest is there is little hope that Russia will return to the old import volume of almost 1 million pork for economic reasons alone.
The efforts of the affected exporting countries to lifting of the Russian import ban have declined significantly low prospects for economic success .
