African swine fever hampers Russian pork market

07-10-2011 | | |
African swine fever hampers Russian pork market
Although production performance of the pig industry in Russia showed a continuing positive trend in the first quarter of 2011, the growth rate of pork production has slowed down, according to a study by the analytical department of the Information Analytical Agency, ‘Imit’. Investments in the domestic Russian pig market lost attractiveness due to the more frequent outbreaks of African Swine Fever.       African Swine Fever (ASF) nowadays not only slows down the growth


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Vladislav Vorotnikov Eastern Europe correspondent