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Fedorov: Latin America has stood in line to feed the Russian
Russia decided on a list of priority countries for the supply of food that were previously imported from countries that have come under Russian sanctions, said the program “News” on channel “Russia 1″ Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov.
“Perspective for us country supply of fruits and vegetables – is Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan, to some extent, Kyrgyzstan. Nearby are Turkey, Iran, Serbia. Very promising countries – Iran, Morocco, Egypt – they need our products, particularly in the grain and vegetable oil, and we need vegetables, fruits, berries and citrus “, – quotes the minister,” Interfax “.
According to him, a very powerful market that ” knocking at the our doors “, – Latin American countries. “This is Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru. We are negotiating with them, and they’ve lined up to us to increase the supply of its products” , – said Fedorov .
He noted that the supply of Norwegian fish replaces Russia itself. “In the past year, we have to export seafood to almost 2 million tons, while imports amounted to slightly less than 1 million. We have a very strong potential of domestic fish production, we only need to negotiate with trade networks to redirect the flow of exports to domestic consumption “, – the minister said.
He said that due to Russia’s ban on food imports from certain countries in Russia will not have shortage or price hike.
” Every day we meet with representatives of retail chains and agree on the rules of behavior in an environment where our country is going through such trials.’s nice that there is a full understanding of the trade networks that some of them even like to scold “, – said Fedorov .
He said that at first may have problems with “ very expensive cheeses from Italy and France, with oysters and mussels”.
“But this is not the segment, which can be very difficult for the country. He segment premium is negligible, while our task – primarily to support the Russian agrarians “, – said Fedorov .
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