Russia Plans to Double Grain Exports, Be a Pork Exporter by 2020
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Russia expects to double grain exports by 2020 and will be producing enough pork and poultry to be a net exporter of both meats, a government official said.
Annual grain shipments will total 40 million to 45 million metric tons, compared with about 20 million now, Sergey Korolev, the first deputy minister in the Agriculture Ministry, said today at a food conference in New York. The increase will require a jump in cultivated land of about 5 million hectares (12.4 million acres), he said.