The Russians began to eat less meat – meat market novsti

In 2014, meat consumption in Russia fell by 2.3 percent compared to 2013 and amounts to about 70 kilograms per person per year.

This” Russian news service, “said the head of the National Meat Association Sergey Yushin.

According to him, consumption of meat products to the end of 2015 could fall to 6 percent. This Yushin said that “Russia has about 20 million people live below the poverty line, so the consumption per capita of more than 70 kilograms – a very good result».

«In many ways, it has become possible due to the rapid development of domestic production. In 1998, the consumption of [meat] was only 42 kilograms per person “, – said the head of the National Meat Association, noting that in the richest countries, the figure is 82-83 kilograms per year.

Yushin said that From 1998 to 2014 the first in Russia, the growth rate of production of poultry meat has become one of the highest in the world: it increased from 700 thousand tons to 4.2 million tons. “With regard to pork, the industrial pig farming has increased from less than 500 thousand tons to 2 million tons, and the total production exceeded 3 million tons last year,” – he added.

Meanwhile, in early March, analysts “VTB Capital” predicted that because of inflation and the decline in revenue by the end of 2015 the cost of the product was 50-55 per cent of all spending Russians, whereas in the fall of 2014, this figure was estimated at 36 percent.

In addition, according to a February opinion poll, nearly a quarter of Russians have been forced from the beginning of 2015 to abandon the purchase of certain goods because of rising prices. In particular, about 90 percent of those surveyed said a significant rise in price of vegetables, fruit, sugar and meat.