The Russian Ministry of Agriculture is interested in Kazakhstan's experience in growing bananas

The first banana growing complex is planned to be created in Stavropol in 2025, the region reported Following the example of Kazakhstan, Russia is thinking about growing bananas, said Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut at the plenary session of the IX International Forum of the Financial University “New Economic Policy 2.0: from Adaptation to a Breakthrough”. “We are already thinking about growing bananas. I was in Kazakhstan last week — Kazakhstan started growing bananas in greenhouses. I don’t know, maybe we will come to this too. I don’t know yet why. For now, Ecuadorian bananas are cheaper. But things are changing,” the head of the Ministry of Agriculture said. “We will work with technology to grow bananas,” she added. Meanwhile, the head of Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol) Mikhail Minenkov has already told TASS that the first banana growing complex in Russia is planned to be created in Stavropol in 2025. Land plots are being formed for construction in the Nevinnomyssk advanced ...