Belarusian beef extrudes from the Russian market of the South American producers

Beef consumption in Russia is growing, despite the very high price of this kind of meat compared to pork and poultry meat.

estimated IAA IMIT, the Russian market for the commodity beef in January-April 2013 amounted to 370.1 thousand tons, an increase of almost 3% over the same period in 2012. It should be noted that the growth in the market is largely due to an increase in the supply of beef from the Republic of Belarus. Belarusian beef imports during the period increased by more than 45%, and its share in the total market increased from 9 percentage points to 13 percentage points At the same time, imports of chilled and frozen beef from other countries outside the Customs Union fell by 5%, and its share in total Russian market declined from 45 percentage points by 41 percentage points

One of the factors contributing to the growth in imports from the Republic of Belarus and its reduction from foreign countries, in addition to the absence of quotas, is a very attractive price of Belarusian products. Thus, according to the weekly market monitoring conducted by IAA IMIT, average prices for Belarusian chilled beef supplied to Russia in the first four months of this year amounted to 4,62 USD / kg for frozen - 3,01 USD / kg, with an average cost of chilled and frozen beef imported from other countries, which are traditional suppliers of this product in Russia, during the period stood at 5,60 USD / kg and 4,44 USD / kg, respectively.

should also be noted that the increase in the beef market in Russia and is caused by an increase in industrial production of this type of meat in our country. However, it is not so significant. The volume of beef production in the agricultural Russia in April-June 2013 amounted to 167.4 thousand tons in carcass weight. This is only a 1.9% or 3.1 million tonnes of carcass weight more than was produced in January-April 2012. This maintains the downward trend in the number of cattle on domestic farms. The number of cattle in the agricultural year decreased by 1.9% (180 thousand units) to 9.1 million head.

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