February 26, 2014

Russia intends to boost annual poultry meat production by 2020

By 2020, Russia plans to produce more than six million tonnes of poultry meat per year, according to a statement from the Ministry of Agriculture's press office.

Investments in the Russian poultry industry have reached more than RUB300 billion (US$8.4 billion) in the last few years. This has allowed more than 400 facilities in the sector to modernise and upgrade.

According to data from the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), the production level of poultry meat in the previous year was 5.1 million tonnes live weight, or 42% of the country's total meat output. Most of this production was broiler meat. Poultry meat imports accounted for only 10%.

The Russian poultry meat market has recently been showing an upward trend in the share of chilled poultry meat to about 50–60% of the overall production level. Large industrial facilities for the production of non-traditional poultry breeds like turkeys and Peking ducks also started up in the same period.

The Ministry of Agriculture adds that per capita poultry meat production is currently 26.6 kilogrammes, while consumption is 29.3 kilogrammes.