“We are approached by agricultural producers who have nowhere to put grain from its overabundance since last year's harvest.

Therefore, we began to look for sales markets and rather quickly, in addition to the Russian sales market, we agreed with representatives of the Middle East, Africa, North America, by the way, which scares us with sanctions, but nevertheless, they buy our grain with pleasure - of course, through intermediaries and according to cunning schemes, but the point is this, ”TASS quotes him as saying.

Earlier, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the LPR Yuri Pronko said that from June 10, grain exports from the republic to Russia by rail will begin.