Poultry meat and eggs have high nutritive value, reason-able prices and no traditional restrictions in such a poly-ethnical and multi-religious country as Russia. This determines the important role the poultry industry plays in supplying the population with a wide variety of foodstuffs. In 1990 the Soviet Union held first position all over the world in egg production and third in poultry meat production. Annual per capita consumption of table eggs in the Russian Federation in 1990 reached 297 eggs (one of the best worldwide). In some regions egg consumption was 400 eggs or more. Average consumption of poultry meat at that time was about 12.8 kg per capita (fourth position worldwide) and the share of imported poultry meat did not exceed 6 percent.
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