Putin: Russia provides itself with basic food by 80%

“But it never occurred to us that we could supply food for export.

Last year, the output amounted to $ 30 billion. Twice more than the products of defense enterprises.

We are now 80% self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs.

This is a serious thing, "RIA Novosti quotes him as saying during a conversation with state prize winners and heroes of labor.

Putin noted that, according to available data, the harvest in 2021 should be good.

In April, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev announced an increase in the volume of Russian agricultural exports in 2020 by almost 20%.