Referring to the harvest’s preliminary results in 2024, Patrushev said that Russian farmers are facing unprecedented difficult climatic conditions, following the last spring’s recurrent frosts, droughts in summer and heavy rains during harvest in several regions.

Amis such dire scenario, farmers in the Siberian regions are completing the harvest.

In addition, Russia is still implementing winter sowing, the pace of which is no slower than last year.

Today, the winter sowing area has exceeded 13 million hectares, Patrushev noted.

He added that barely 10 years ago a grain harvest of more than 100 million tons was considered exceptional.

In the last five years, no less than 120 million tons have been produced.

Today, 122 million tons of grain have already been harvested.

In other words, Russia’s food security is fully guaranteed and good export potential is foreseeable.

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