One Russian region sees spike in meat exports
Recently, Mosprom Center has released a report on Moscow's Exports of Processed Meats. Moscow-based companies exported processed meat products to 18 countries in the first half of 2021. Exports of meat products continue to show stable growth, up 20.7% year-on-year and 24.2% higher than in the first half of 2019, according to Alexander Prokhorov, head of Moscow's department for investment and industrial policy.
"We see Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe as promising regions for local meat exporters, specifically China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Moldova, and Serbia. Exports of meat and edible meat offal to non-CIS countries are up significantly, with China and Hong Kong among the top five importers of meat and edible meat offal in 2020 and in the first half of 2021," said deputy mayor Vladimir Yevimov.
Last year Moscow exported meat products to 24 countries. Kazakhstan was the top buyer, with meat imports up 138.8% to $26.26 million, followed by Hong Kong ($13.44 million, up 77.6%), China ($12.92 million, up 18.4%), Belarus ($4.76 million, up 6.9%) and Kyrgyzstan ($2.88 million, up 42.0%).
"Moscow-based meat processors have seen stable increases in exports since 2017 when the total was $44.93 million. In 2018, exports of meat products went up 27.6% to $57.33 million, and in 2019 they rose another 25.6% to $71.99 million," Prokhorov explained. "By the end of 2020, local companies exported $81.76 million in meat products, up 13.6% from 2019."
According to data collected by the Mosprom Center for Export Support, poultry and poultry offal make up almost half of the capital's meat exports, reaching $40.78 million in 2020, up 37.3% year-on-year. The second most popular item is frozen beef, at $12.84 million, up 64.9% year-on-year.
Serbia and Moldova are the top Eastern European consumers of local exporters' meat products. In 2020, local companies exported $1.29 million in meat products to Serbia. For comparison, local companies exported just $140,000 in meat products to Serbia in 2018 and $840,000 in 2019.
The results reported by meat processors in the Moscow region go on opposite way compared to the picture seen for some sectors in the Russian meat industry in the first half of the year. In the first half of 2021, Russia exported 132,000 tonnes of poultry – 6.6% down compared to the same period in 2020, the Russian government estimated. In early 2021, Russian poultry production dropped by 6.2%, the strongest decline over the past decade, due to numerous factors, including the avian influenza epidemic and an unprecedented hike in production costs.
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