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A team of experts from Russia are set to carry out
inspections of milk processing units in India to explore the possibility of
importing dairy products from them.
If successful exporting butter, cheese and milk powder could
start by December.
This follows on from last month’s visit to Moscow by India’s
commerce ministry who discussed resuming meat and dairy exports previously
banned by Russia because of a foot and mouth outbreak years ago.
Good news for India perhaps but not what Russian domestic
producers would want to hear as they looked to capitalise on the sanctions
placed on US and EU supply’s.
Russian officials might be extolling the benefit sanctions
will play in building local food production but they don’t seem to be doing anything
to support it.
By looking to other countries to supply the immediate shortfall
in supplies that sanctions have created they will be delaying further any investment
in domestic production.