Russia is taking over the world not by force of arms, but by deliveries of food

Published 2021년 9월 28일

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Russia has significantly increased its investment in agricultural support, with a plan to spend 75 billion rubles on land reclamation in the next three years, a quarter of the budget allocated for the previous seven years. This strategy, aimed at achieving food self-sufficiency and turning food exports into a geopolitical weapon, has been successful. In 2016, Russia surpassed the United States and Canada as the world's leading grain exporter. The country's meat exports, including to Asia, have also seen a positive trend, with China and Vietnam as major customers. By 2024, Russia aims to increase grain exports by 50% and production to 140 million tons, utilizing virgin and fallow lands for agriculture.

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Why does Russia need agricultural support in the 21st century? And what tasks does our country solve by investing in Russian rural areas? About this - in the material of FAN. Why Russia should develop agriculture Comparative figures clearly show the growth of budgetary support for land reclamation. The previous reclamation program, adopted back in 2013, was designed for seven whole years and covered the period 2014-2020. The state spent 75 billion rubles on it. Now it is planned to spend almost a quarter of the larger amount in just three years. So what is this - a sensible policy or throwing money down the drain, or rather, burying it in the ground? As the saying goes, "it would be better if they gave it to pensioners." Although no, oh, the pensioners were also given out. So what did the past reclamation program give Russia? The Western press writes about this with envy, calling it "the doctrine of wheat democracy." By the early 2000s, Russia fell into total dependence on food ...

Source: Agrovesti