“Russian ban good for Russian dairy market”

The Russian ban of agricultural products might persist until 2018, and might be even a good thing for the domestic milk and cheese market in Russia. This was said by Mikhail Mishchenko, editor of The Dairy News Russia, who presented the latest data on the Russian dairy market at the World Dairy Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Since the start of the Russian food embargo (summer 2014), Russia has lost 38.5% of the imported dairy products, in particular cheese (-60%). As an effect, Russian milk comp