The Leningrad region: milk and meat without small business

The agricultural sector of the Leningrad area every year increases the rate of production at the same time, market participants point out that the space for small and medium enterprises are practically no: the market is concentrated in the hands of the big players.

Dairy farming - one of the leading sectors of the agricultural complex of the Leningrad region. The main objective of the industry is to increase the productivity of livestock and an increase in gross milk production while maintaining livestock.

According to the analyst, "Investkafe" Daria Pichugina, in 2013, the market for dairy farming in the Leningrad region amount to 600-650 thousand tons of milk. Every year, the market volume increased by about 3-5%. In 2012, according to Petrostat, in the Leningrad region were produced 569 thousand tons of milk.

told the committee on agriculture of the Leningrad region, in the region of 173 are engaged in dairy farming sector, including tribal - 67. These enterprises contained 77% of the cows and 82% of the milk produced.

Despite the fact that the Leningrad Region is one of the leaders in Russia in terms of milk production, market participants complain about the poor quality of raw materials, and some businesses prefer to make it yourself.

head of information-analytical center of the National Union of Milk Producers ("Soyuzmoloko") Rybalova Tatiana says: "High-quality raw materials goes mainly to large producers who control the bulk of the market. The small businesses have to fight for it. Another thing is that our milk first grade of lower quality than milk produced in Europe. "

bulk raw materials from producers Leningrad purchase the three major companies: "Unimilk", "Wimm-Bill-Dann" and "Piskarevka." How

say market participants, small businesses in the dairy farming sector not only suffer from a shortage of raw materials, but also from the growing competition. Because of this, many small and medium-sized monastery increasingly close.

«In the market competition increases, so only the fittest survive - commented Tatiana Rybalova. - Increase the supply of imports also greatly affects the internal competition. "

meat market Leningrad region the situation is similar. "Due to Russia's accession to the WTO and the development of a customs union, competition in the roar of beef cattle increased, especially with manufacturers from Belarus, which reduces the rate of growth of production in the Leningrad region," - says Daria Pichugin.

In addition, a large volume of the import of beef from South America, and Australia. Import quota for beef in Russia in 2013 is 570 thousand tons of pork - 430 thousand tons, poultry - 364 thousand tons. Meanwhile, in 2012 in the whole Leningrad region produced 321.3 thousand tons of meat, including 30.5 thousand tons of pork, 27.5 thousand tons of beef and more than 260 thousand tons of poultry meat. The total meat production allows Leningrad securely hold a leading position in Russia for the production of eggs (first place) and poultry (second place).

high cost of Russian meat as compared with imports is the most pressing problem at the moment, the general director of the collective farm "Shestakovo" "Vladimir Aksenov. According to him, the production of agricultural spent almost more money than it brings realization. < / p>

«Today the cost incurred at Russian enterprises of meat above the retail price of the same meat in European stores, - he said. - Purchasing power in the country is below. On average you can check to see what people spend on food is less, the meat goes into the category, it is not available to all customers, the demand goes to cheaper chicken. "

negative impact on the market beef cattle have epizootic threat, including the threat of African swine fever virus that has spread this summer in many regions of the country. The Government of the Leningrad region has already declared its intention to liquidate in 2013 on small farmsteads more than two thousand pigs in the prevention of ASF.

«It is better to kill two thousand heads than to kill many times more, but only one company - says the decision of the president of the regional government of the Meat Union Leningrad Alexander Orlov. - In large enterprises always clearly met the requirements of veterinary medicine. There, officers attend gowns and shoe covers, and the feed is checked in the laboratory. Speaking of African swine, it appears mostly on small farmsteads, where pigs are fed a variety of waste from canteens, with military units. It gets into the food to the animals, and hence one of the reasons for the emergence of African swine. Large enterprises can not be so. "