Opportunities for Russian pork producers

However sad the cause, this week’s one-year food ban announced by the Russian president Putin appears to be good news for Russia’s pork producers. First – a ban on pork from the EU or the USA is nothing new. Since January 2014, Russia has already closed its borders to all pig and pork products from the European Union. As African Swine Fever (ASF) was discovered just across the borders with Poland, and later Lithuania and Latvia, Russia decided to close its borders to pork from the whole of