Russia maintains status of net food exporter – Patrushev

Russia still maintains the status of a net exporter of food and agricultural products, despite any attempts at unfriendly actions on the part of Western countries. This statement was made by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev at the federal educational marathon "Knowledge. First", TASS reports. Recall that the country acquired this status in 2020. This term means that it supplies more agricultural products abroad than it imports in monetary and/or physical terms. One example, the Deputy Prime Minister named, of course, such a main "weapon" of Russia as wheat. In terms of supplies of this grain, our country is the undisputed world leader - it owns every fourth batch that is sold on the world market. He also recalled the growth in the production of Russian cheese and special beef breeds and the development of its own turkey production from scratch. At the same time, he noted that now the whole world knows about Russian products and how they are distinguished by high quality and ...