Russian Meat Demand May Rise Up to 15% by 2016, Cherkizovo Says
Russian meat and poultry consumption may rise as much as 15 percent in the next few years, according to OAO Cherkizovo Group, the country’s second- largest poultry producer.
Meat demand may come to between 74 kilograms (163 pounds) and 75 kilograms per capita in 2016, implying a gain of at least 14 percent from the current 65 kilograms, General Director Sergei Mikhailov said today in Moscow, where the company is based. Poultry consumption alone will increase 20 percent to 30 kilograms, he said.
Mikhailov spoke after a presentation for a new project in the Lipetsk region that Cherkizovo expects to make it Russia’s leading poultry producer in five years, with annual output of more than 500,000 metric tons by live weight. The project will include an egg incubator, a slaughterhouse and a
Imported poultry will have a 10 percent share of the Russian market by the end of 2011, according to Mikhailov. Cherkizovo expects beef imports to make up 25 percent of the market and foreign pork to have a share of between 20 percent and 25 percent, spokeswoman Irina Ostryakova said.
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