“We have good results in agriculture thanks to a number of decisions made earlier.

We need to let this sector earn money, make a profit so that they can invest in the result of the 2023 harvest, in processing, livestock, but ... we cannot allow everything to be pulled abroad ... we definitely need stable reserves, ”he said.

In mid-December, Russian Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev said that Russia had collected more than 159 million tons of grain in bunker weight, and about 150 million tons in net weight.