[Global Network Report Trainee Reporter Xu Jiali] "As before, our country is one of the key suppliers of agricultural products in the world, and we have established ourselves as a reliable and predictable partner." According to the "Russia Today" (RT) TV station, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the 18th that despite the influence of western trade barriers, Russian agricultural exports increased last year.
Russian President Putin’s data map (Source: Foreign Media)
The report mentioned that when Putin met with the Russian Minister of Agriculture, he said that Russia reached the highest grain output in history last year, nearly 158 million tons. Putin said that in the current agricultural year ending June 30 this year, the country is expected to export as much as 60 million tons of grain. According to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, as of March, Russia has exported 40 million tons of grain. In the last agricultural year, the overall grain export volume was only over 38 million tons.
According to the report, Putin said that Russia has achieved self-sufficiency in agriculture and has surpluses of fish, meat, vegetable oil, grain and sugar to export. He added, "Despite foreign trade barriers, Russia successfully increased its agricultural exports to $41.6 billion last year."
In addition, the report mentioned that since 2022, Moscow has become the target of several rounds of economic sanctions in the West, which have limited Russia’s ability to settle foreign trade transactions. However, Russia has established a new economic partnership and found alternative ways to carry out foreign trade, including using the currencies of relevant countries instead of the US dollar and the euro.