Russian poultry on the verge of collapse

In the first quarter of this year, enterprises poultry complex of the Southern Urals showed a loss of 633 million rubles.

A year ago January-March brought the poultry farmers 191 million rubles of profit. To alleviate the situation, to support the poultry and pig Chelyabinsk region federal and provincial governments have pledged 438 million rubles, which the company unsuccessfully waiting since June, reports chel.ru.

According to experts Chel.ru, such a difficult situation for poultry producers - the result of last year's drought and the entry of Russia into the WTO. Respondents site indicated that for some companies every day brings out state subsidies bankruptcy. They also believe that subsidies to support companies that produce meat, not enough: should restrict the importation of imported meat in Russia.

According to the regional Ministry of Agriculture, Chelyabinsk region is then the second, then the third largest producer of poultry meat, competing with the Leningrad region. However, given the run Kunashak poultry farm area take a stable second place. In this case, all the South Urals poultry farm in the first quarter of this year triggered a loss: minus 633 million rubles against a profit of 191 million rubles in January-March last year. And this trend can be seen in the poultry and pork facilities across the country.

cause of the situation, according to experts Chel.ru, has several factors. One of them - Russia's accession to the WTO.

«The problem is that at the end of last year, and poultry and pig farmers - those who provided the last ten years, growth of meat production - hit the price scissors, - says CEO" Ravis "Andrew Kosilov. - On the one hand, by the accession of Russia to the WTO import duties on pork, which is recycled, have been reduced up to five or six times. The sharp drop in pork prices and lower prices caused by the bird. Because the majority of poultry on three main areas of implementation: own proprietary network, various kinds of trade (supermarkets, federal and other networks, small and medium business) and industrial processing (shipping products to meat processing plants). On the other hand - it's drought and rising feed prices ».

«It seems that the federal and regional authorities are fully aware of the situation in the poultry industry - outraged the general director of the group of companies" Health Farm "into the hands of Eugene. - By joining the WTO and not having started with foreign poultry to the Russian market, the government has opened the way to the market of cheap pork - frozen blocks grown it is not clear how. Thus, meat processors, which are used to 40 per cent in raw chicken, pork switched to a block. The result was the overproduction of chicken in Russia. Accession to the WTO, the lack of growth of consumption, lower prices of chicken, inflated the price of feed, in fact, the lack of state support - are factors that wreck Russian poultry ».

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