Poultry disappears from Russian grocery shelves
In the first weeks of 2024, occasional shortages of poultry were reported in the biggest Russian cities, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ulyanovsk, and Samara, as well as in some parts of Moscow. The authorities insist that poultry is in sufficient supply, while retailers and farmers partly acknowledge the problem.
Russia’s poultry and egg market has experienced a supply deficit, accompanied by unprecedented price turbulence in the second half of 2023. To deal with the crisis, the government resorted to extraordinary measures, including imposing a duty-free imports of 160,000 tonnes of poultry and launching urgent egg imports from Turkey and Azerbaijan.
During a government meeting at the end of December, Russian deputy prime minister Victoria Abramchenko outlined that she expected the price situation in the Russian poultry market to stabilise by the end of the January holiday on 8 January.
Vladislav Vorotnikov | Poultry World
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