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from China plus 7% from India. All the others were negative with those from the US down 60%.
Russian pig farmers exported 130,000 tonnes of pork in the first 6 months of 2022, 25% lower
compared the same period of the previous year. As of late October, foreign sales lag behind last year’s level only by 15%. This indicates that export slightly recovered. By the end of 2022, Russian is set to export 170,000 tonnes of pork, against 210,000 in 2021, Russian Union of Pork Producers (RUPP) said. A drop in export to Vietnam, Hong Kong and Ukraine – the key export markets for Russian pig farmers in the past few years were offset by a rise in supplies to Belarus and Kazakhstan, RUPP said, not providing any concrete data. In January-September, Russian industrial pig farms saw a 7.9% rise in output. By the end of the year, this segment could boost production by 8%, or 350,000 tonnes compared with the previous year, RUPP said. On the other hand, backyard farms and individual farms of the citizens experience a 10.8% and 12.2% rise, respectively. These combined production in these segments plummeted by roughly 37,000 tonnes. As the Russian government abolished import duties on pork, import has tripled. It reached 13,000 tonnes in the first 9 months of 2022. At this level, import has no impact on the Russian pork market landscape.
A sudden and surprising spike in European exports of washing machines, refrigerators and even electric breast pumps to Russia’s neighbours is raising concerns among officials the trade boom may be helping Vladimir Putin’s war machine in Ukraine. Armenia imported more washing machines from the European Union during the first eight months of the year than the past two years combined, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the EU’s Eurostat database. Kazakhstan imported $21.4mn worth of European refrigerators through August, more than triple the amount for the same period last year.
Russian pig farmers have seen export supplies recovering in the past
several months, after a slump in the first half of 2022.
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