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Russia Increasing Poultry Production

There is now confirmation that Russia wants to increase its capacity for poultry production. The plan is to completely avoid importing poultry meat during the next four to five years. Russia's Agriculture Minister, Yelena Skrynnik, says for this year Russia plans to build 23 new poultry complexes with capacity of roughly 320,000 metric tons.

In fact, the Agriculture Minister told Interfax News Agency that advanced growth rates in poultry meat production make them able to not only meet internal needs for this product, but to start exporting to other countries.  Skrynnik predicted Russia will increase domestic meat production by 25% by 2012. During that period imports will drop to 18% of overall consumption.