CSR expert: More than two billion people around the world need grain, primarily Sri Lanka

Published Jul 19, 2023

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Sri Lanka is the country with the highest need for grain, specifically wheat, meslin, and corn, due to food shortages affecting over 6.3 million people. The Russian Federation has expressed its readiness to supply free grain to the poorest countries in Africa, with a focus on helping needy African countries. The World Bank estimates that over 2.1 billion people, excluding overlaps between countries, require grain consumption, with Sri Lanka, China, and other countries being the largest consumers.

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The need for grain, including Russian, is experienced by more than 2 billion people around the world, the country most in need of wheat, meslin and corn is Sri Lanka, Maria Gachenko, an expert at the center for the economy of the non-primary sector of the CSR, told RIA Novosti. On Tuesday, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the readiness of the Russian Federation to supply free grain to the poorest countries in Africa, as Vladimir Putin spoke about in June, remains. The press secretary of the head of state noted that the needy African countries received the least from the grain deal. Also, according to him, the Russian Federation maintains contacts on deliveries with African partners and will continue them at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg. “In aggregate, according to the World Bank, we are talking about a population of more than 1.8 billion people in the case of wheat and meslin consumption, and more than 1.7 billion people in the case of corn. In ...

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