Corriere della Sera: Russia’s agricultural development was Putin’s “secret triumph”.
The development of agriculture in Russia is the “secret triumph” of President Vladimir Putin, writes Federico Rampini in an article in Italy’s Corriere della Sera.
Recently, Rampini “paid” for the fact that, while surveying the food situation in the world, along with the good news about the decline in prices for grain and other agricultural products, he gave “another, but more inconvenient: Russian agriculture is full of health”, and this year Russia will achieve record grain exports despite “dreadful scenarios”, the article says. Agriculture is Vladimir Putin’s “secret triumph,” he points out. According to the author, he still remembers the times when American farmers “did not let Soviet citizens go hungry.”
“Now this memory is left somewhere in the distant past. Under Putin, there has been a tremendous resurgence in agriculture in Russia,” Rampini said.
So, from 2000 to 2018, the export of agricultural products from Russia increased 16 times, and today the country produces more grain than the United States. Russia and the United States are third and fourth in world production after China and India, which, however, are home to 1.4 billion people, which is why they are forced to use most of the agricultural products for domestic needs. Another piece of good news that Moscow “particularly likes” but that the West tries to ignore has to do with the impact of global warming on agriculture, Rampini continues.
“Climate change will harm agriculture in some regions but benefit it in others. Russia, together with Canada and the Scandinavian countries, is in a winning position,” the author claims.
The journalist notes that depending on the year, Russia controls 13-16% of world grain exports, and by the end of 2022, Russian exports should exceed the level of last year.
“Prices remain high, but don’t confuse inflation with shortages. There is an abundance of food in the world, only it is poorly distributed, and some political decisions lead to higher prices: take, for example, India’s decision to stop exporting grain and use it for domestic consumption”, concludes Rumpini.
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