Crimean agrarians have finished a harvest drive, reaping 1.413 million tons of grain that is some 300,000 tons in excess of plan. Local authorities set the task of bringing the grain crop to three million tons in five years.
The needs of Crimea for grain are estimated at 750,000 tons or so. According to Crimean agriculture minister Vitaliy Polischuk, Turkish and Iranian firms are ready to buy grain. He said about 700,000 tons of grain could be exported from the Russian peninsula.
Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that Russia placed the embargo on import of foodstuffs in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the decadent West.
Currently, the Russian government is carrying out the task of replacing agricultural imports at priority rates. According to forecasts by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, output of vegetables will increase by 0.8% in the country this year.
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