As noted during the meeting, Dmitry Patrushev, the contacts between Russia and Cuba in the agricultural sector are a regular feature that gives the results: over the past year, trade increased by more than 2 times. The Minister expressed hope that at the end of 2019 will be able to maintain positive growth. To this end, parties are implementing a number of joint initiatives, including the expansion of export of domestic agricultural products to the Republic of Cuba.

In particular, according to the head of the Ministry of agriculture of Russia, our country is interested in organizing supply of grain, meat products and other food products. Also Dmitry Patrushev thanked the Cuban party for the successful certification in January 2019 number of Russian cattle-breeding enterprises. A further increase in the number of domestic suppliers of these products will help to diversify the structure of exports to Cuba.

The parties also discussed the delivery of the irrigation equipment in the framework of the project for the restoration and development of the citrus industry of the Republic of Cuba.

At the end of the meeting Dmitry Patrushev invited the Cuban side to continue a detailed discussion on the bilateral agenda in the next meeting of Russian-Cuban Working group on agriculture, scheduled for the fall of 2019 in Moscow.

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