Russia may start loading transport returning to Uzbekistan with agricultural products
By Trend
President of the Russia Vladimir Putin proposed to continue work on optimizing the Uzbek-Russian trade and its logistics, Uzbek media reported.
He also added that only in the first eight months of 2018, the volume of Russian-Uzbek trade of agricultural products increased by almost 40 percent to $340 million.
In particular, according to the Russian president, now it is necessary to resolve the issue of loading the transport which is returning back to Uzbekistan with Russian products, including foodstuffs.
"There are opportunities for this. The volume of agricultural production in Russia over the past five years has increased by more than 20 percent. We believe that this is certainly the breakthrough nature of the development of Russian agriculture. A real breakthrough has been made in this field. Last year, a record harvest of grain was collected - 135 million tons, this year the figures will be a little smaller, but still it is a significant amount of over 100 million tons," Putin said.
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