October 27, 2008
The Federal State Statistics Service reports that meat and meat product manufacturing has increased by 7 percent in the Russian Federation in January – September 2008, in comparison with the same period of 2007.
In particular, sausage product manufacturing grew by 3.3 percent, meat and 1st grade by-product manufacturing up by 12.7 percent; production of semi-processed products rose by 12 percent; canned meat production increased by 14.9 percent.
Together with that, production of meat and meat products grew by 6.3 percent in September 2008.
In particular, in September Russian enterprises manufactured: 238 thousand tonnes of meat including by-products of the first grade (11.4 percent); 123 thousand tonnes of meat semi-processed products (8.7 percent); 798 thousand tonnes of rendered fats (-27.7 percent); 214 thousand tonnes of sausage products (1.1 percent); and 54.4 millions of standard cans of canned meat (21.4 percent).