Reindeer Blog

FAIRBANKS (AP) — For most hungry Alaskans, reindeer meat doesn’t represent much more than a spicy sausage link. University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers want to know if there’s more potential for the state’s roughly 18,000 reindeer. A new market study is under way to see whether local consumers are interested in high-end cuts of reindeer, [...]

Finland’s largest processor of reindeer meat, Lapin Liha, is to begin to import reindeer meat from the Yamal Peninsula. This will signal the first time that Yamal reindeer meat is imported to a country that already has a domestic reindeer meat industry. Lapin Liha stated to the media that this was necessary as there was [...]

A group of businessmen from the Republic of Karelia in April unsuccessful tried to smuggle 800 kg of reindeer horns from Russia to Latvia. The smugglers where caught by customs officers in Pskov Oblast near the border to Latvia. In the truck, the customs officers found 495 units of reindeer horn with a total weight [...]

The preserved blood of reindeer could become a promising area of cooperation between Russia’s Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area and China, a deputy governor of the region in Russia’s Far North said Sunday. The Yamal-Nenets area, “Russia’s outpost in the Arctic,” became the first of Russian regions to present itself at the international exhibition World Expo 2010 [...]

Глава правительства Красноярского края Эдхам Акбулатов дал указание  своим подчиненным продумать варианты реализации северного мяса, рыбы и дикоросов в России и за пределами страны. По его словам, необходимо изучить успешный опыт Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа, который реализует животноводческую продукцию хозяйств представителей коренных народов Севера не только в Сибири, но в Германии и других странах Европейского Союза.

Российские информационные агентства передают, что 20 ноября Госдума РФ приняла в третьем чтении проект федерального бюджета на 2010 год и плановый период 2011 и 2012 годов. В итоговом бюджете расходы на государственную поддержку северного оленеводства составили всего 180 млн. руб.

There was an interesting interview in RusBusiness News recently with Aleksandr Mazharov, the Director of the Department for International and Interregional Relations of YaNAO (Yamal Nenets Autonomous Okrug). Obviously, the vast majority and indeed focus of the Yamal economy is its oil and gas reserves.  95.5% of the regions exported products were oil and gas [...]

That might sound obvious to readers of this blog, however if a message is worth saying, it worth repeating and often it is more important who actually says the message.. Stein Mathisen, the head of Innovation Norway, (a state agency with 700 employees that was set up to make nationwide industrial development profitable to both [...]

Reindeer meat from Finnish Lapland is now recognized in the EU as a product with a high level of quality and as a traditional product. This means that reindeer meat from Lapland in Finland was added to the regulation of Parma ham and other similar products, among which is a protected designation of origin (PDO).  [...]

Wind power, power lines and hydroelectric power development in the years ahead may lead to new huge encroachments in the Sámi reindeer herding areas in Norway. Around 260 such projects are now being examined in the offices of the  Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), according to a story in today’s NRK Sami Radio. The [...]