The government of Ecuador are going to buy Russian wheat, creating an alternative to supplies from Canada. About it the correspondent. TASS said Andrea Navarro Toro is a specialist on international relations of the state company UNA, which is engaged in centralized purchasing of agricultural products abroad, and also represents the interests of farmers and entrepreneurs of Ecuador on the world market.

"We have concluded a corresponding agreement, however, the precise quantities of supplies will be clear after will be conducted laboratory tests, - said the representative of the UNA. - On the way back home we'll get in Moscow a small amount of wheat. The analyses will allow you to determine exactly which sectors of the food industry we will be able to use grain, but the purchase will be in any case".

Annually Ecuador purchases on the world market of about 400 thousand tons of wheat, mostly in Canada.

In state-owned companies note that deliveries from Russia to diversify the market.

A delegation of representatives of business circles of Ecuador arrived in Sverdlovsk oblast, headed by Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ecuador in the Russian Federation Patricio Chavez Savaloy.