Russia’s Machines Cost 20 Million Tons of Grain, Institute Says
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Russia foregoes 15 million to 20 million metric tons of grain it could harvest annually because of equipment deficiencies, according to Moscow-based agricultural sciences institute Rosselkhozakademia.
The losses, together with 1 million tons of meat and 7 million tons of milk, are attributable to “simplified, extensive technologies and an extremely low level of modern equipment in agricultural production,” Ivan Gorbachev, an academic in the institute’s agricultural equipment department, said today at a conference in Moscow.