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US monopolizes Central Asia meat market 22 Oct 2009
The US meat imports to the Central Asia region is steadily increasing with the current market share in the whole region exceeding more than 70%, according to Russian analysts estimates.
By Evegen Vorotnikov
Only in Kyrgyzstan this year, the imports of the US meat and meat products increased by 110%, amounted to 23,200 tonnes of meat, with poultry accounting for a major part of the total export volumes.
The same situation is observed in other countries of the region, where US meat currently does not have any serious competitors.
One of the main reasons for such state of affairs is the underdevelopment of the meat industries of the majority Central Asian states, where the volume of meat production has historically been extremely low due to production unprofitableness.
This year the volume of shipments of US meat takes an average 65% of the total meat imports to the region; most of the supplies traditionally accounting for poultry.
According to analysts, the US has managed to show extraordinary flexibility of being able to quickly reorient themselves from the previously traditional Russian market to the markets of the former Soviet states in Central A.
The same situation is observed in other countries of the region, where US meat currently does not have any serious competitors.
One of the main reasons for such state of affairs is the underdevelopment of the meat industries of the majority Central Asian states, where the volume of meat production has historically been extremely low due to production unprofitableness.
This year the volume of shipments of US meat takes an average 65% of the total meat imports to the region; most of the supplies traditionally accounting for poultry.
According to analysts, the US has managed to show extraordinary flexibility of being able to quickly reorient themselves from the previously traditional Russian market to the markets of the former Soviet states in Central A.
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