According to General Director of "Prozerno" Vladimir Petrichenko, citing data from the Federal customs service, from July to November 2016 in Japan already sent 245,5 thousand tons of grain.

"This is only the beginning, there is still seven months grain year, and the shipment is already much higher than the best season of the Russian-Japanese trade of grain in the 2008/2009 agricultural year, whereas in Japan it was delivered to 63,1 thousand tons of grain," — he said.

According to V. Petrichenko, basic grain product is corn, but also grow the supply of wheat for the first time, feed barley. In particular, Japan bought of 227.2 thousand tons of Russian corn, 12.6 thousand tons of barley and 5.65 tons of wheat.

"And if the corn and barley was traditionally shipped from the Azov-black sea basin, the supply of wheat was from Vladivostok", — he said.