Russia will start supplying beef to Turkey in 2019

The head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev said that the “supply of Russian beef to the Turkish markets will begin this year”, reports TASS.

He noted that Russia is actively conquering the Turkish market. Thus, in 2018^th, the export of agricultural products to this country increased by 7% and reached $1.9 billion.

At the same time, Patrushev stressed that from the point of view of agricultural exports, Russia pays great attention to the middle East markets. He cited Iran as an example.

In 2018 the agricultural trade turnover between Russia and Iran has increased by half and amounted to about $1.2 billion. Russian exports increased by almost 45% due to the growth in the volume of supply of corn, sunflower oil, lamb and goat meat.

Source: Channel «Big Asia», TASS

20.02.2019