Everything can be grown in the Kuban, Russia, even peanuts and bananas

The Krasnodar Territory, where about 75% of Russian rice is grown and more than a third of all vineyards in the country are located, this year has been hit by natural disasters three times. According to experts and the authorities, despite the bad weather, the volume of the rice harvest will be kept at the level of last year, but the loss of grapes may be from 15 to 20%. The deputy governor of the Krasnodar Territory, who oversees the agro-industrial block, Andrey Korobka, told TASS why the Kuban is planning to establish import substitution of peanuts and trout, is it possible to grow coffee here, how much wine the region should produce in order to provide the country. - Andrey Nikolaevich, the summer in the Krasnodar Territory was not the most comfortable, if we talk about weather conditions: hail fell on the region, several times there were heavy downpours with flooding. How did this affect the crop yield? - This year, the bad weather began in early summer: on the territory of ...