April 10, 2023

Increase in Russia's beef, pork production in first two months of this year

Russia has increased the production of beef, pork, mutton, goat meat and horsemeat by 12.2% in the first two months of 2023, compared to the same period last year.

From January - February 2023, the output of these products amounted to 560 thousand tons, according to Rosstat.

Production of poultry meat and edible by-products also increased by 1.6% up to 812 thousand tons. The output of meat, chilled and frozen semi-finished products increased by 7.1% up to 711 thousand tons in January - February 2023.

Production of sausage products in January - February increased by 4% over the same period last year to 367 thousand tons.

The production of canned meat increased by 29.7% to 130 million cans.

The production of processed and canned fish, crustaceans, and mollusks increased by 4.8% to 667 thousand tons.

At the same time, the production of finished feed for non-producing animals decreased by 2.5% to 219 thousand tons in January - February this year.

March 30, 2023/ Veterinary Medicine and Life/ Russia.