Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has set the task to increase the export of domestic agricultural products from $17 to $19 billion.

"With regard to agriculture, we orientirueshsya to increase the exports of the agricultural sector from the current $17 billion, which is now a record $19 billion", — said the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Presidium of the Council on priority projects. According to him, the goal is also to "increase export opportunities, of course, not forgetting the fact that the main task of agriculture remains to feed the own country".

The Prime Minister noted the need to develop export products and other non-resource sectors. At the meeting, he suggested the adoption of three passports of the priority areas project on international cooperation and exports.

"The first project we have, together with the Russian export centre to create an enabling environment of our companies doing business in foreign markets, next year we need to offer a whole range of state instruments of financial and non-financial support non-oil export", — said the Prime Minister. He said that this area involves "special programs for lending to export, the formation of export infrastructure, including, for example, industrial areas, trading houses abroad, the logistics facilities in the country and participation in international exhibitions in close cooperation of development institutions and leading industry associations."

According to Dmitry Medvedev, "special attention should be paid to the regulatory framework, removing barriers, streamlining procedures connected with obtaining documents in foreign trade delivery, confirmation of zero VAT rate and VAT refund, the customs tariff operations." "The other two involve the concentration of resources on supporting priority sectors - automotive, agricultural and railway engineering, aircraft building", — said the head of the Cabinet. He recalled the goal – "by 2018, to double the exports in all the four sectors".

The Prime Minister assured that the authorities do not intend to restrict the support only of these industries. "In the near future need to create separate projects to support the export of education, tourism, telecommunications services and export opportunities for small and medium companies, primarily by using modern mechanisms of electronic Commerce and the digital environment", he said.