MOSCOW: Russia’s much wanted access into the EU poultry export market received a recent boost with the addition of another poultry facility being approved for exports. A quota issue means that progress is still slow, however. The latest farm, a poultry farm of Russia’s largest meat producer, Cherkizovo, has been authorised to export chicken meat to the European Union (EU) from 1st November, a report of the company states. Andrey Terehin, head of Cherkizovo’s Export Development Department explains, EU members are large consumers and importers of chicken and turkey filet, so the European market is among the priorities in Cherkizovo’s development plan of the coming years.
Terehin also disclosed that Cherkizovo is already negotiating with some European partners for establishing a first trial supply of chicken to Europe. Russia has no quota for supply of chicken to EU, but the company expects this issue would be resolved as well, he added. Cherkizovo is now the 9th Russian meat manufacturer that has been allowed to deliver poultry to the EU over the past two years. The European market is very promising for Russian poultry, as at the moment EU imports up to 1 million tonnes of poultry meat per year, Sergei Yushin, head of Russian National Meat Association explains.
