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Wednesday, 17 April 2019

The agriculture Ministry predicted Russia's entry into the top-10 food exporters

Russia in the medium term, can enter the top ten world exporters of agricultural products, said agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev on total Board of the Ministry.

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He added that in some positions the country is already among the top three.

The Minister noted that in 2018, Russia opened several strategically important markets.

"It is primarily China, Morocco, Japan, Singapore, Serbia, Turkey. This is not a complete list of countries. In Morocco it is now possible to supply fish products, honey, vegetable, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, Kuwait — meat and meat products," he said.

The head of the Ministry also reminded that with China, agreements were reached on the supply of poultry and dairy products.

"The first consignment of poultry products have already shipped the supply of dairy products are expected in the near future. Right now its export to China have ten Russian enterprises. Until the end of April the representatives of the Chinese side on issues of export plan to complete the process of inclusion in the list of 23 Russian companies", — said Patrushev.

He also pointed out that by the end of last year, exports of agricultural products increased significantly.

"The main increase is obtained by increasing the supply of foreign markets of grain crops. In 2018, also recorded strong growth in exports of fish and seafood, meat products, products of oil and fat industry, the food processing industry", — concluded the Minister.

Last year Russia exported agricultural products 25.9 billion.

Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"

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