'African Countries Are New Market for Russia' in Field of Veterinary Products
10:38 27.10.2024 (Updated: 11:32 28.10.2024)
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The 2nd ASIAEXPO-2024 international agricultural congress took place in Russia's Sirius Federal Territory on October 23-25. Officials and industry experts from Africa, Iran, Jordan, and Russia participated in the event.
Russia sees Africa as a potential growth market for its veterinary products, Alexander Kononov, head of the Federal Center for Animal Health Protection, specializing in vaccines and diagnostics, told Sputnik Africa.
"We are just starting to supply a number of vaccines on a large scale to countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Uganda and Libya," Alexander Kononov said on the sidelines of the AsiaExpo, an international agricultural congress in Sirius, the federal territory in southern Russia.
According to Kononov, his company is able to expand deliveries to other countries with ties to Moscow, and its specialists can even travel to isolate pathogens and develop vaccines.
"We must do everything so that African countries also have this possibility of obtaining the vaccine to improve the epizootic situation in their country," Kononov expressed the company's preparedness to share its expertise with the African continent.
He also noted that over the past few years, the center has delivered almost a million doses of vaccines to different countries.
