Export restrictions are intended to induce domestic producers to invest more in production, the minister said.

“This is one of our sources of growth by adding new value chains - grain pushes livestock forward, livestock pushes milk forward, and so on,” TASS quoted him as saying.

On June 5, Russia imposed a ban on the export of buckwheat and buckwheat.

It will be valid until August 31st.

Such a government decree was adopted at the end of April in order to ensure food security.