Russia ready to import poultry from India | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russia is ready to import poultry from India if the U.S. does not resume its supplies, Russian agriculture minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Friday after a meeting with her Indian counterpart.
The U.S., which supplied 22% of poultry consumed in Russia last year, was unable to continue imports after January 1, when new sanitary requirements came into force in Russia.
Skrynnik said India, a major poultry producer, has already expressed its readiness to supply its products to Russia, as well as Turkey and Thailand.
‘At the moment, actually this week, we found out that we have excessive stocks of poultry products on our farms, so we stopped discussions by now. But, theoretically, if we need poultry, we can buy it from India,’ she said.”