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Russia is on a fast track to a new pea industry


Pea processing has attracted record- breaking investments in Russia, promising to deliver a broad range of new high-value raw materials to the feed industry.


BY VLADISLAV VOROTNIKOV, CORRESPONDENT R


ussia has the world’s second-largest pea industry af- ter Canada, with production volumes still growing. In 2020, pea production climbed to 2.74 million tonnes, compared to 2.37 million tonnes in 2019


and 2.3 million tonnes in 2018, the Russian state statistical service Rosstat estimated. Russia exports nearly 1 million tonnes of peas per year, while the rest is used by the Russian food industry. Several Russian companies have recently laid out plans to begin high-level pea processing in Russia in the next few years. Moscow-based company Pineco expects to begin building a pea processing plant in the next two months, the state development corporation of Orel Oblast said in a statement on July 18. The investment cost is 24 bil- lion rubles (US$ 350 million). The plant will handle 260,000 tonnes of raw peas per year, delivering pea protein, isolate, pectin, maltodextrin, bioethanol, and feedstuffs. Oleg Radin, president of the Russian advanced grain process- ing companies, commented that the declared production vol- umes were quite large for the Russian market, especially since for some products, such as maltodextrin, demand in the do- mestic market was nearly fully met. “Pea protein is an inter- esting and new product for Russia, but there are already two small companies on the market, and they [Pineco] will have to compete with them,” Radin said, adding that one way or another, the company would need to export some product to other countries. Currently, Russia mainly imports the products of pea process- ing, including those that meet the needs of the domestic feed industry. For instance, pectin is imported mainly from Germa- ny and France. Plans to launch pea processing have also been


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