date:Jan 22, 2013
Foreign farm groups reported headway boosting dairy production in a Russian market which offers excellent conditions for growth to meet the output void which leaves the country largely dependent on imports.
Alpcot Agro, the Swedish-listed farming group with operations in Russia and Ukraine, said on Monday that its Russian dairy production had risen by 31% last year to an average of 42.1 tonnes per day.
The increase reflected improvements in the genetic make-up of the group's dairy herd, as wel