According to the forecast of Dmitry Rylko, general director of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), the export of agricultural products from the Russian Federation in 2017 may increase to $ 18 billion. (Last year, the amount of exports was $ 17.1 billion dollars), according to the Sfera Publishing House.
"Export increased by 13% in the first four months of 2017," said Dmitry Rylko, "Growth was noted in such sectors as cereals and oil products, and sugar became the record holder for exports."
Dmitry Rylko called an interesting fact that China in 2017 moved to the second place on supplies from Russia. "If earlier the first places were occupied by Turkey and Egypt, where we exported grain and oilseeds in huge volumes, and then other countries, including Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, went on with a great gap, now the export to China is growing rapidly," he said. "This country is becoming Russia's leading foreign trade partner in terms of food exports."
