News

To enter the top 3 it is necessary to increase production by several million tons per year, and this is a rather difficult task, domestic analysts warn.

Three leaders of the last year remained unchanged – China with a volume of 187 million tons, the United States – 173 million and Brazil – about 70 million tons of feed. However, further, as the authors of the annual review of the world market of feed production from the corporation Alltech declare , the list has unexpectedly changed.Russia managed to overtake Mexico, Spain and India in production and to get to the fourth place. At the same time in Europe, we became number one in feed.

In the Ministry of Agriculture they talked about import substitution in animal husbandry.
A sharp increase in the production of feed for pigs and poultry, including the private sector allowed to achieve such an impressive result, the overseas experts assume.

It will be difficult to enter the treasured top three, pushing Brazil, considering the existing almost two-fold gap, believe domestic experts. “Nevertheless, the upward trend in the ranking of the leading countries – producers of feeds is objective and this success is caused by a stable increase in livestock production in Russia,” Vladimir Manaenkov, Executive Director of the National Feed Union (NCC), told the “Russian newspaper”. – Our production annually increases by about one million tons, and often even more.For example, last year the growth was about 7 percent. “

In addition, attention to this sector of agricultural production is growing. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, this year the areas for fodder crops will be increased by almost 78 thousand hectares – up to 16 million hectares.However, there is a problem – dependence on imports of feed additives needed in production. And this issue needs to be resolved more actively, including at the government level, the NCC believes.

This year, the area under sowing fodder crops will be increased to 16 million hectares
At the same time, our industry experts note that the data of Americans is much more positive than official Russian statistics. For example, Rosstat reported that last year the country produced 27.6 million tons of mixed feeds – that is exactly 10 million tons less than Alltech reports .”Mismatch may be due to different methods of calculation,” Vladimir Manaenkov believes. – Our statisticians take into account the data only about the “pure” production of mixed fodders, not taking into account the data of producers that are part of agricultural holdings. ” For them, the main indicator – livestock products – weight, livestock and so on – and not accompanying production, including feed. So they do not send their data on this line to the departments.

37.6 million tons of animal feed was produced in Russia in 2017
While the Americans draw their conclusions by calculation, figuring out how much meat was produced in the country and how much it took to feed them.