Donetsk, Nov 9 — DAN. The Russian Federation has become the world’s largest grain exporter over the past decade, President Vladimir Putin said at the talks with Kazakh leader Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev on Thursday.
“Russia is proud of its achievements in the field of agriculture over the past eight or ten years as it changed from being an absolute importer of foodstuffs to a major exporter and the world’s top grain exporter, ” Putin said. “It is pleasant to say and pleasant to reiterate: we’ll keep a very good potential and (supply — eds Donetsk News Agency) 60 million tons of grain, perhaps more, in exports to world food markets.”
Putin also said that the Russian-Kazakh cooperation was not limited to agriculture. In industrial production, promising clusters were emerging in machine-building and the agricultural machinery and chemical industries.
DAN earlier reported that Putin had noted the contribution from the whole country to the solution of environmental problems in the new regions.*jk