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For international dairy exporters, India remains an attractive destination, but they face serious challenges related to supply chain and distribution networks. “For an international company to come in and start from scratch, [it] has to struggle with the portfolio, procurement and distribution,” said Siva Nagarajan, managing director of Mother Dairy Fruits & Vegetables Ltd, owned by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB): It would take at least 10 years to build such a network, he told just-food.…

INDIAN dairy cooperative Amul has told just-food it is hoping to soon secure Russian government approval to export products to this market, which is currently lacking European Union (EU) supplies. Returning to India following a meeting in Russia, Rupinder S. Sodhi, the managing director of Amul’s marketing arm the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) told just-food.com:…

GROWING fears over the widespread use of antibiotics in farm animals helped drive falling demand for imported meat in Sweden in the first half of 2014, but Russia’s EU food trade ban might reverse the trend, say experts. The latest figures from the Swedish board of agriculture (Jordbruksverket) show that imports decreased by 7% for beef and by 6% for pork meat, both year-on-year.…

Tiny Paraguay is now the world’s eighth top beef exporter says US government figures, ahead of meaty superpowers such as Argentina (11th), but their aim is to be number five by 2020 and have 20 million head of cattle available in that year alone.…

Danish meat industry organisations estimate that Russia’s meat embargo will cost the country’s pig farming industry around Danish Krone DKK 1.6 billion (USD282 million/EUR215 million) in 2014. The industry is becoming increasingly concerned that lost revenue could potentially deepen should the existing trade sanctions escalate in to a full-force trade war in the event of a further deterioration in political relations between the European Union (EU) and Russia over Ukraine.…

THE EUROPEAN meat market is not in crisis following the embargo imposed by Russia on meat from the European Union (EU), a European Commission expert has told globalmeatnews.com.

Looking at price levels and producers’ margins, Dr Kai-Uwe Sprenger, market officer for animal products at the European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for agriculture, said that there are no significant variations in these two areas so far.…

Zimbabwe will soon start exporting beef to Russia, which continues to seek new supplies after banning imports from the USA and European Union (EU), the southern African country’s agriculture minister Joseph Made has said.

In an interview, Made said Russia will soon dispatch a technical team to Harare to examine beef export systems and checks, while exploring the potential for buying additional foodstuffs.…

BRITAIN might not be reliant on Russian gas to keep warm, but British utilities are only too well aware that if Moscow turns off the taps this winter, there will be significantly increased demand for alternative gas supplies.

As a result, utility executives will have been keeping a close eye on talks in Berlin this weekend, where the European Union’s (EU) energy commissioner Günther Oettinger has been trying to broker a deal with Russia and Ukraine to head off a supply freeze.…

THE RUSSIAN government is considering imposing a ban on the imports of textile and non-wovens machinery after October 20, if the European Union (EU) and the USA further tighten their economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia as a result of the Ukraine conflict.…

RUSSIAN meat importers have started soliciting meat from Switzerland as its ban on European Union (EU) food imports looks set to stay in place for months. With allegations emerging today of direct Russian military involvement in Ukraine, the chance of any kind of deal to ease the sanctions stand-off between the EU and Russia looks slim.…