Russian agricultural production has surged more than 20 percent over the past six years. The country has managed to capture more than half of the global wheat market in recent years, becoming the world’s biggest exporter of grain, thanks to bumper harvests and attractive pricing. Since the early 2000s, this share of the global wheat market has quadrupled.
It is what I have talked about for years now on WtR…
and…
For years now I have talked about – Russian Farming Resurgence…
Article after article on WtR about the rise of Russia in the farming sector of the world. I was threatened with death even for thinking that Russia could and can do anything but drink vodka…
I have talked about the fields that lay dormant (from the Soviet era) for many many years being reopened and I watched this year the same. Fields that have been just weeded over since I have come to Russia in 2006, are now being and have been plowed up and growing grain galore…
Having driven Russia and enjoyed the countryside, I asked many questions and the biggest one I asked, “Why are all these fields left unused?” And I still ask it as I see they have just scratched the surface of opening up the old fields again….but as time goes by, every year more and more fields are being plowed again…
It is what the world has to have and the world needs to survive and Russia saw during the Medvedev presidency an opportunity to change the future in farming…
GMO free and plentiful. It is what it is and for those who want to see a future and plan for long term stability….farming is the soul and backbone of any country…
I see as I drive Russia in our Volga; Farming is food and food is life!
Light at the end of the tunnel, is hard to get to, but Russia is trying…
WtR
