He said this on the sidelines of the Ninth Open Russian Plowing Championship in the Leningrad Region.
“We are the largest buyers and owners of agricultural machinery in Russia, 98% of our combines are domestic, 85% of tractors are domestic, 15% are tractors that are produced in Belarus, so I believe that we have replaced imports quite well,” TASS quotes him .
At the same time, he added that at the moment there are certain logistical problems, but they will be overcome.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin noted that Russia expects to export 37 million tons of grain this year.
According to him, next year it is planned to export up to 50 million tons.