© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский TOMSK, Aug 6 – RIA Tomsk. The "Krasnoyarsk" pig
complex, entering the JSC "Siberian Agrarian Group", sent the first
shipment of by-products to Hong Kong – 24 tons, the company plans to supply 30
tons of products to China every month; also received permission on deliveries
to Vietnam, is reported on the website of agroholding on Monday.
Earlier it was reported that the Tomsk agribusiness holding company
"Siberian Agrarian Group" plans to start exporting of meat products
to Asian countries; in 2016, the company created a department which deals with
the development of this direction. Then, because of the fall in the ruble
exchange rate, the price of meat in Russia become the lowest in the world and
twice lower than in China.
It is specified that in order to start deliveries to Asia, the enterprise
passed mandatory certification in the Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for
Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance). Permission was obtained for the
export of products to Hong Kong and Vietnam.
"By-products are very much appreciated in the market of our eastern
neighbors. It is the first direct supply contract concluded between us and Hong
Kong partners. The first lot was 24 tons of products", – the head of the
export relations department Gennady Petrovich is quoted in the message.
It is added that the agroholding intends to send monthly 30 tons of products
to China in the future, and it is also planned to start deliveries to Vietnam.
The company began exporting in 2016 and is already selling its products in
Belarus and Mongolia.
JSC "Siberian Agrarian Group" – is a large agro-industrial
holding. It includes four pig-breeding complexes in the Tomsk, Sverdlovsk
regions, Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Buryatia, poultry farm in the
Tomsk region, meat processing plants in the Tomsk and Kemerovo regions, feed
mill in Asino, farmland in the Tyumen region.