Pork lowered prices for poultry meat and does not allow them to rise

During the first five months of this year in agricultural Russia noted the positive dynamics of the main types of meat.

In January-May 2013 the volume of production of pork, beef, poultry, lamb and goat meat has increased by 12.7% compared to the same period of 2012 and amounted to 2,340 thousand tons in carcass weight. Central Federal District was the most prosperous and increased industrial production figures for the period by 19%, while the average increase in Russia amounted to 9%.

In general, Russia has been an increase in production in all major areas of livestock, but livestock population continues to decline. As of 1 June, the number of cattle in all categories of farms in Russia last year's performance is inferior to 1% at 21 million head.

Comparing the price dynamics in the context of certain types of meat in our country, we can distinguish some similarities tendentsiyizmeneniya prices. For example, a trigger lower prices for chicken meat by 25%, which lasted from September 2012 to April this year, served as a collapse in pork prices over the period by 27%. According to research by IAA "IMIT" In mid-April of this year, prices for these kinds of meat also started synchronously adjusted upwards. However April rebound in pork prices (meatind.ru) , which restored them to the level of a six-month-old, a significant impact on the cost of chicken meat has not had. If the pork in half over the past two months has risen by 10.9%, the cost of chicken meat in the period under review has been less volatile and strengthened by only 2.9%.

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