overview
With a land area of 17 million square kilometers and 60 thousand kilometers
of borders and coastline, Russia is the largest country in the world (see
Map). For centuries, Russia has had
strong political and economic influence in both Europe and Asia. And with
133 million hectares of arable land, a large agrarian workforce (14 percent
of the total), and 147 million inhabitants to feed, Russia has also been
a major regional and global agricultural player.
The ERS research program on Russia focuses on annual long range forecasts
of Russian agricultural production and trade and on how post-USSR policy
reform has affected the country's agricultural production, consumption,
and trade, particularly imports of U.S. agricultural
goods. Other research examines how reform has affected the efficiency
and productivity of Russian farms, and the extent to which Russian agriculture
is integrated into the world economy and conforms to the concept of comparative
advantage. More overview…
contents
feature
Many factors determine the Structure of
the Global Markets for Meat, including the relative availability of
resources for raising and processing animals for meat. Countries' preferences
for various cuts of meat provide opportunities for international trade.
recommended readings
International Evidence
on Food Consumption Patterns analyzes expenditures across 114 countries
on major consumption categories, including food and different food subcategories.
Results indicate poorer countries are more responsive to price and income
changes and also allocate larger shares of their total budget to necessities
such as food.
Implications of Russia's
New Poultry Import Quotas examines the impact of new quotas on livestock
imports imposed by Russia in April 2003. One of the quotas is an absolute
quota on poultry meat imports. Because Russia is one of the largest destinations
for U.S. poultry products, the quota could significantly affect U.S. poultry
exports and prices.
Agricultural Reform: Major Commodity
Restructuring but Little Institutional Restructuring, part of a U.S.
Congress Joint Economic Committee report, examines how economic transition
has substantially changed Russian agricultural production, consumption,
and trade—with the main development being a drop in output. The entire
report, Russia's
Uncertain Economic Future, is a large Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file that
may take time to download.
See all recommended readings...
recommended data products
Russia at a glance provides data on population,
gross domestic product (GDP), employment, consumer price index (CPI),
exchange rate, and trade.
Russia's agriculture at a glance
presents data on land, agricultural production by commodity, farm structure,
and agricultural trade.
Production, Supply, and Distribution
(PS&D) contains official USDA data on production, supply, and distribution
of agricultural commodities for the United States and major importing
and exporting countries. The database provides projections for the coming
year and historical data for more than 200 countries and major crop, livestock,
fishery, and forest products.
Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States
(FATUS) provides U.S. agricultural exports and imports, volume and value,
by country, by commodity, and by calendar year, fiscal year, and month,
for varying periods, such as 1935 to the present or 1989 to the present.
Updated monthly or annually.
WTO Agricultural Trade Policy
Commitments Database contains data on implementation of trade policy
commitments by WTO member countries. Data on domestic support, export
subsidies, and tariffs are organized for comparison across countries.
This queriable database offers various options for viewing and downloading
data.
Agricultural Market Access Database
(AMAD) is a publicly available information tool for analyzing WTO market
access issues in agriculture. It contains data and information for WTO
member countries, including tariff schedules, tariff bindings, applied
tariff rates, country notifications to the WTO, import quantities, and
other data useful in tariff analysis.
Agricultural Statistics
for the Former Soviet Republics and the Baltic States covers land
use and farm structure, population, labor force, agricultural inputs,
grains, livestock, food consumption. Soviet data generally include 1960-90;
data for republics cover 1980-95.
See key data chapter...
related briefing rooms
Agricultural baseline projections
World Trade Organization (WTO)
European Union
Ukraine
Poland
Hungary
related links
Websites of other USDA agencies, other government agencies, and international
organizations with valuable information on Russia.
See all related links...
for more information, contact:
William Liefert
web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov
page updated: October 17, 2003
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