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Russia’s EkoNiva Group, based in Voronezh, has received permission to export cheeses and other products to China. EkoNiva has passed the relevant audit and all necessary procedures, with the first batch of cheeses to be exported to China this summer. EkoNiva will establish regular supplies in the future.
EkoNiva’s cheese plant is also certified to export products to countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as to Abkhazia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The company produces more than 6 tonnes of cheese per day. Cheese-grade milk is supplied from the group’s own farms located close to the plant.
EkoNiva’s president, Stefan Durr, said that “cheese is a very promising export product. We plan to export a lot, because the domestic market is oversaturated. China and Southeast Asia are particularly promising destinations.”
The company is ramping up investment to achieve its Asia-export goals and is now completing the construction of a cheese plant in Maslyanino, Novosibirsk. Durr said that “more than 35,000 tonnes of semi-hard and hard cheeses will be produced there per year. This will provide a manifold increase to our current production in the Voronezh region.”
EkoNiva said that its products have been present on the Chinese market since 2020. The group mainly supplies ultra-pasteurized milk of various fat contents from the Classic Line and the Professional Line, as well as ultra-pasteurized cream with 10% fat content. EkoNiva’s dairy products are sold through retail chains in Northeast China, the provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, and other regions. Online platforms are also used in most regions of China. In 2025, a branded EkoNiva store was opened in Xi’an.
EkoNiva’s production and services offices are present in 13 Russian regions, including in the Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Ryazan, Samara, and Tyumen regions as well as the Altai, Bashkortostan, and Tatarstan regions.
The group’s main dairy division unites 42 modern livestock complexes, including those under construction. The total livestock population is 251,200 head of cattle, of which approximately 120,100 are dairy cows. In 2025, raw milk production in physical weight increased to 1.45 million tonnes from 1.35 million tonnes in 2024. EkoNiva is also engaged in milk processing. It manages four processing plants in the Voronezh, Kaluga, and Novosibirsk regions.
In addition, the group’s enterprises are engaged in pedigree and beef cattle breeding, seed production, crop farming, and organic agriculture. The holding is among the largest owners of agricultural land with 648,000 hectares.
