October 18, 2011

Russia's meat output up from January-September

In the first nine months of 2011, Russia's meat and meat product output increased 4.6% on year to 866,000 tonnes, the Federal State Statistics Service said Monday (Oct 17).

Russia's poultry and poultry product output rose 8.3% on the year to 2.2 million tonnes in January–September, while the output of fish and fish products rose 7.6% on the year to 2.8 million tonnes.

In 2010, Russia's meat and meat product output rose 11.2% on the year, the service said in January.