If for six months of 2018, the volumes of poultry meat supplies increased by only 3% against the corresponding period in 2017, then in the first half of 2019 they increased by almost 38% compared to last year's figures for January-June and amounted to 211 thousand tons.
The value of exports of this type of meat products increased by 28% - from $ 241 million to $ 307 million.
According to the forecasts of scientists of the Institute of Agricultural Economics, the trend to increase exports of this type of product will continue in 2019, concluded Nikolai Pugachev.