The section “Russian Meat” presents an analysis of the situation in the poultry market. In the total production of meat by farmers, beef and pork account for an increasingly smaller share while the share of poultry meat is getting bigger.
The section “World Meat” describes the poultry sector in China. The outgoing year has failed to become a watershed for Russia's meat business - either as a turning point, a catastrophe or a bumper year. The situation in the meat market in 2005 is examined by meat sector insiders in the section "Issue's Feature".
According to some analysts, one of the reasons for the lack of interest on the part of Russian and foreign investors in long-term livestock-farming projects is absence of reliable information on the state and prospects for the market. In this context, the magazine MYASO.com unveils a new project, Open Meat Market, which is expected to promote the investment prospects of Russia's meat sector. The first region to be featured as part of our project is the Belgorod region. And the Issue's Personality is its Governor Evgeny Savchenko. The Section "Open Meat Market" provides an opportunity to learn about the situation in the Belgorod region using the leading companies in the area as case studies.
LUTETIA is a name that is as yet new to the Russian market. Worldwide, however, this French company is very well known. Over the 40 years of its existence, it has succeeded in becoming a leading European manufacturer of equipment for meat-processing and the entire food industry. The prospects of the company in the Russian market are discussed in the section "Business Technologies" by the LUTETIA Moscow CEO Sergei Antonenko.
The Russian business is rather slow in introducing superior innovations. Those who have pioneered the Western style and practices and, more importantly, succeeded in making them work are thin on the ground. One of the more impressive success stories in leading-edge business orientation in the meat sector is MeatLand Logistics & Distribution. Last October the company opened its first specialist meat distribution centre in St. Petersburg. For more details about this please see again the section "Business Technologies".
Marketing of meat products, with long-term protection against all types of bacterial attack, is the cornerstone for reliable operation of modern meat-processing facilities. The section "Safety and Health" outlines new solutions produced by researchers in the way of environmentally safe comprehensive food supplements aimed at providing long-term antibacterial and antifungal protection at the surface of various sausages and meat delicatessen.
On 20–21 October 2005 the Federation Council hosted the conference "Food and Environmental Safety of the Population of the Russian Federation: the State and Problems of Regulatory and Legislative Support". For more details about the problems raised at the conference please see the section "Reportage". The same section features items covering the exhibitions World Food 2005 and Agroprodmash 2005
The magazine MYASO.com has become information Partner of the 5th football tournament to commemorate Day of Food Industry Worker, which took place in late October in the Moscow satellite town of Reutovo. This was a true sports celebration with all the trimmings of a commemorative event. For more details, please see the section "Entertainment".