“Over the eight months of this year, the volume of foreign trade in Russian agricultural products and food with the member states of the organization has increased by almost a quarter,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Mishustin specified that the volume of trade with the SCO countries for the specified period amounted to about $8.5 billion.
“Expanding cooperation on this track is extremely in demand,” he concluded.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an increase in the share of payments in national currencies between the SCO countries.