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Home => Scheme cut => Lithuanian butchers fear Russian ban on importsLithuanian butchers fear Russian ban on imports
Lithuanian producers of meat and meat products are worried that the recent statement of Russian Minister of Agriculture can directly touch and Lithuania and worsen an already difficult situation, which now hit the sector due to drought and lack of fodder. Business Newspaper «Vyarslo zhines», in particular, writes: «Alexei Gordeev, Minister of Agriculture of Russia, recently warned that will seek ways to protect local producers from foreign competition. He recalled that Russia had already banned the import of animal products and vegetable from many countries, including - from Ukraine and Moldova, but now «the same issue is addressed in the supply of products from the Baltic countries». Reporting about this, the newspaper stresses: «Officials hope that the statement by the Russian Minister of Agriculture that Russia would seek to limit imports of livestock products from the Baltic countries, Lithuania does not affect». But if that happens, then, «butchers warn that, losing a huge market nearby, all the meat sector would be in a crisis situation. « That would hit the entire industry - like processors, so and those who grow animals. The internal competition will increase even more, which reduced profit margin and vyraschivateley, and the producers », - explains the newspaper Augeniyus Gudzhyunas, CEO of one of the largest meat-processing enterprises in Lithuania« Agrovet ». The same theme raised and the newspaper «Lietuvos ritas», which is in correspondence «at meat processing plants - a mass culling of cattle», in glavke «Russia took face», said that «until this time the Lithuanian manufacturers raw material quality worse sent to Eastern Market, most often - in Russia. However, the power of the country, had already banned imports of the meat from Poland and Ukraine today mentioned that the same make and with the Baltic countries. «Lithuania has used only about 20-30% buys cattle, so if it lost the Russian market, does not represent, that will have to do. After all, refrigerators and freezers is available only in the most boen large, but they are almost filled. A small buyers are forced to soon realize their meat », - explained the President of the Association of Lithuanian meat processors Jolanta Bastene». AgroNews |
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