Putin: Russia should commit itself to deliveries to consumer partners
Russia should take on the president’s commitments to the supply of agricultural products related to food inflation, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the usual restrictions. About it report RIA News”.
“Given… the complexity that arises in the world food markets, arises with the inevitable food inflation of the world’s oceans, we, of course, must comply with all our obligations to individual samples, of course, very carefully monitor the fact that we have a president things are happening in the agrarian order, and of course, they very much expect that we will fulfill all our obligations,” it is specified.
According to Putin, in Russia it is necessary to think over participation in advance and resolve the complexity, for example, with logistics that have become more complicated due to the combination.
Minister of Economic Development of Russia Dmitry Patrushev at a meeting confirmed the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture for the collection in the country, in 2022 it can be about 130 million tons, Interfax writes. According to his calculations, the projected oilseed harvest is 22.6 million tons, sugar beets – more than 41.5 million tons, potatoes – at least 6.8 million tons, open ground vegetables – 5.2 million tons. “In the last two years, the Russian Federation has become a net exporter of agricultural products. In 2022, it is planned to maintain the results achieved and the following basic products, primarily grain and all products that are unfavorable for partners,” Patrushev said.
On June 24, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the world was facing a “catastrophe” due to extreme food shortages, which he said had been exacerbated by the crisis in Ukraine. On the same day, in the BRICS Plus format, Putin announced that Russia could supply about 50 million tons of grain to world markets. He also noted that the volume of deliveries to the Russian and Belarusian markets, as well as the export of Russian export goods, Western countries destabilize the global production of agricultural products.
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