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According to Minister of Agriculture, Dmitry Patrushev, meat export for the first nine months of 2020 showed significant growth - meat and by-products worth $610 million were delivered to foreign markets, which is up 79% compared to the same period last year.
The main buyer of Russian meat is China, which in 2020 imported products worth $ 235 million - 3.9 times more than in 2019. In second place is Vietnam, which increased its purchases by 3.8 times to $ 92 million. Ukraine takes third place, having purchased Russian meat for $ 80 million (+14%). Exports to Hong Kong increased 2.1 times to $ 47 million, and to Kazakhstan - to $ 35 million (+48%).
Poultry meat accounts for the major share of the total volume of exports for this segment, which increased to $317 million (+71%). The growth is primarily due to the dynamics of supplies to China. In January-September 2020 the export of poultry meat to China increased to 113 thousand tons, and in terms of value it increased 3.5 times to $ 208 million.
Exports of Russian pork and by-products in the first nine months of this year showed more than twofold growth, reaching 131 thousand tons and $ 219 million in terms of value. Positive dynamics is observed in all major supply directions. Thanks to the opening of the Vietnamese market in November 2019, Russian companies managed to supply pork worth $ 86 million.
In 2020, Russia supplied 9.4 thousand tons of beef to foreign markets worth $ 48 million, which is 2.9 times more than in 2019. The leader among buyers of Russian beef is China, whose market access was opened in mid-January. For the first nine months of this year more than 5 thousand tons of Russian beef worth $ 25 million was exported to China.
October 22, 2020/ Ministry of Agriculture/ Russia.
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