The world is facing a deficit of beef

Due to the exhaustion of pasture resources and reduction in yield of meat from dairy cows the world is facing a deficit of beef.

Vice president of agricultural holdings " Agribusiness " Alexander Nikitin opined in the exhibition " Dairy and meat industry " (Moscow , 19-21 March ) . "Traditionally, in Russia and in the Soviet Union, the beef was derived from milk production , - said the representative of " Miratorga . " - After the revolution, we went to the German way , when was based on dairy and meat and dairy cattle breeds ( Holstein- Friesian and Simmental ) to get both meat and milk. But this way is fraught with the fact that with the development of modern genetics and forage productivity of dairy cows is constantly increasing , so they are a by-product producers ( beef ) make all the smaller contribution . For Russia, the only chance to replace the drop-down beef - go towards the development of beef cattle, as do Brazil, Argentina , Paraguay, Uruguay , USA, Canada , Australia and New Zealand . " Russian beef market Nikitin called safe enough : after joining the WTO vnutrikvotnaya rate ( 15% ) has not changed , and the above-quota was even enhanced. And although the size of the quota can be considered redundant, he said , all of the suppliers of beef to us still not worth it. The fact that in the production of beef is not possible to apply the same industrial methods that are accepted in pig and poultry farming . This is especially true phase "cow - calf ". Therefore meet the growing global demand for beef will be more difficult than in those industries. "In the near future the world will face a shortage of beef , - quotes Nikitin SoyaNews. - First and foremost , this is due to the fact that the world's rangeland resources are exhausted. Russia probably remained the last such resource. China begins to consume beef exponentially. In view of almost the entire Asian population Australia starts work on China , South Korea and Japan on . "