date:May 24, 2012
According to the Russian statistical services, poultry production in Russia reached 774,600 tonnes (t) in carcass weight, an increase of 16.7% or 111,000t on Q1 of 2011.
Thus, Russia can fully meet the demand for poultry with its own production in 2012. Our needs are currently amounted to 3.5mt per year, and this year we will produce exactly this figure, said director general of the Russian Poultry Union (Rosptitsesoyuz) Galina Bobyleva.
In 2011 poultry meat production totaled 3.17mt and thi