these are the images from seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. a french official calls for ground troops to enter libya saying the campaign will be cornered if they're not deployed both as france finds itself fourteenth refillable was present sarkozy's biggest battle is convincing the same people to stay on some light. a critically ill russian convict is leading to and his i don't know if he's a severe diabetic is refusing science in recent years and legs but officials are adamant that euthanasia is not an option as it's banned in the country. and veterans in georgia say they've been abandoned by the country they fought for all

to supply bought fifteen dollars a month and soldiers recently tried to protest over you to find them detained. but it's been a tough year for russian farmers in the wake of last year's record drought and destructive wildfires next to the night in charge of the industry terms of how the sector is recover it. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia. we've got the future coverage.

oh again a welcome to our knowledge and today my guest on the show is william that's going. in today's world great export is one of the main indicators the country's economic might but last year's catastrophic drought forced moscow to impose and then bargain on grain exports so will this year's harvest be any better than last year and what are the perspectives is russia ready to lift the embargo and please welcome russia's agriculture minister. russia's grain export ban has been a popular topic for speculation in many countries as he's meeting with king abdullah of jordan prime minister putin said moscow would do its best to return to the market as a great exporter but this could take some doing deputy prime minister because of course says that the band may be standard until the end of the year in two thousand

and ten the harvest was thirty million tons less than the year before to help the farmers the government offered subsidies but subsidizing need become illegal in russia george w. shield and that brings the question on russian farmers ready to compete against foreign agriculture. mrs granny can thank you for coming to our show hollow the first question of which you very much interests the world community use the russian embargo on grain exports when and under what conditions will it be you dawlish to iran any concrete steps forward in britain where in the middle of the spring campaign now and as soon as we are certain about the current state of the winter crops and so far we know there's a yari in good shape in russia's north caucuses and southern federal districts. almost as soon as we get some hostin estimates. but once address the issue of

lifting the ban. with it would you as of today you can say what we'll have since the aftermath of the last year's drought is still felt so happy to check the winter crops. paul would not six months ago we had our cards look just in our studio the chairman of the russian grain union you know him a dancer who told us in the studio that the band had a very negative effect on our transport companies and the manufacturers and from your duty radically nothing good to russia the same time we lost our good reputation as a brain exporter but it was there in the car could you comment on that for six months later by saying it. was i don't agree with that for us priority is to me domestic demand for food in calif he'd the russian grain rule. is about our food security here is

a part of the world so who's amazing is that we have banned x. ports so the grain hot can be used to feed cattle was situation is far from perfect. and is bred grain. of the world is down to only in order to lower grain prices the government is doing the following your first. bradly must be sold through an exchange. as for thought a grain. is sold by their requests from retailers in order to support our agricultural juices the saturday by the drought. so the prices were this grain us thirty to forty percent lower than on the market. i would like to know. that as we were selling fodder grain through an exchange based in regional requests the prices went down by ten percent on average and see this with the prices to go

down so our priority is to provide our cattle breeding farms with everything they need in fodder grain the food market was great grain. more as for export where indeed keen on returning to the broad market and preserving our export potential but the decision will be taken only after the hostin campaign this year of the un food and agriculture organization today the food prices are at their highest level ever since ninety ninety what that figures in that report for. the price of wheat was up sixty percent in two thousand and ten and it's still rising floods in australia and fires in russia are two major reasons but this year's drought in the largest weed growing country china concerned the global price for green skyrocketing we are of course

extremely concerned about. rising food prices in particular because of the impact on the poorest even well to do nation start feeling it the british have seen their first drop in real incomes in thirty years and on a global scale forty four million people have been forced into poor it is since last june in north african countries and their importers of food and it's the greatest heat by even small price rises the rising cost of basic foodstuffs was one of the reasons behind the revolution in egypt all prices also have an effect on basics when the oil prices are very hot that is definitely more incentive to produce more biofuels on the same or food crops to produce them and this is what happened in two thousand and seven eight and it was one of the factors that led to the shop increase in prices of software crops and much depends now when what is

going to happen to coops this year for instance if there are large enough exploit of grains from russia could be resumed last year after a devastating drought moscow introduced a ban on overseas sales of cereals to protect domestic consumers russia has been criticised for the decision which sent world prices out now analysts fear the ban could remain in place until two thousand and twelve and into the upward pressure on food prices. who little of you mentioned that grain prices went down and our food prices on the whole have gone out and my wife can't tell because she goes shopping regularly and she says that in the past year she began to spend about fifty percent more on third in the media because the graphs are that it is sheer pull the prices go down here

but and so the net is this possible. for us to all of them there are two factors that have an impact on the food market or the first is the drought the heat wave we hired last year and second opinion the current trends on the road market liberalist has he tried. to push a ripple for what they could go for but these two factors are defining the situation to harass the priority is to preserve the market balance between be areas industries across scale breeding and so forth. as who food prices will go. are you wearing close contact with the anti-monopoly agency let me assure you that any instances of speculation crys fixing and justified price increase are minded and dealt with. it was a situation with buckwheat as you know and potatoes both because the better russian

agricultural production values one of our position is steady. over out production of poultry meat and poor is growing both mean. how you know for grain reserves and don't have to import or. the situation is stable although the prices are growing as expected but not in such a disastrous proportions as it was was back we are going to openly emission international transfer of norris. official forecast of the ira mouth existing that food prices are going to rise and you progress yes there's a current tendency on the world market is the russian government have the same forecast you can say anything more optimistic for our viewers can you. pull this thing is that it is up to the economic development ministry to deal with

forecasting opinions everybody knows that prices are rising. however the government is taking you by the range of measures to support agricultural producers affected by the drought about thirty five billion rubles were allocated to the town to support agricultural companies so they can go on with this case will dictate and start a spring sowing. the prices for fuel in love brookins have been lowered by social well as compared to the market prices more money is allocated for foetal ises and sees all the measures are meant to support agricultural manufacturers in terms of production volumes avoiding a sharp increase in prices what the risk of it if you're saying that you're supporting your great cultural manufacturers' which is true but if russia becomes a w t o member law will you still be able to continue doing this it will

nobody can prohibit as a private what the roster. and the rosten rules of course we have reached an agreement and we're still negotiating when i met with the representatives of the cannes group i was authorised by the government to represent rushin in the toolbox of recent agreements the trash will be allowed to support its agricultural sector was more than nine billion dollars today we support it was four point five billion dollars north cost this limit of nine billion dollars will gradually below would be the final figure will be over four billion dollars so we. in the pros of reaching a final agreement russia isn't the way to joining the w t o and this will have no negative effect on state support for all agriculture cooking is that as the minister of agriculture are you in aware of the fact that most of the money you allocate for agricultural producers never reaches that which is being idle while

the i've been writing as the minister for two years and the first thing we did agree to a job loss to create a register of subsidy recipients in order to monitor whether the money reaches them or not next this year all i know was sign an agreement with the region to send our support there we demand from them a schedule of payments to see when the money will reach agricultural companies so when winds are in situation today i'm fully informed about the situation at the local level because in charge of the russian farming project i have personally talked to farmers in trying to fire regions with says here on the screen the clear russian agricultural minister spotlight pulled back shortly after the break so they would have one in unison for real in less than a minute. to it. they

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goes east of lake baikal with the longest russian railway line drugs. for the sunday desert lies about siberian mansions that her people follow the same routes as hundreds of years ago. welcome to the trancelike. russia close of the park. welcome back to spotlight on alvin often just reminded that my guest in the studio today is he on the screen the agriculture minister of the russian federation. mrs crane keeping with president medvedev is instructions she will step down as a member of the board for the united korean companies here right now and it's not only yemeni high ranking officials once you do seem to know how a new director be left and will you have some people it is important to take your

place right. whatever we are currently considering the best way to implement the president's instructions and escort we will follow his instructions but we need to break out all the technicalities when the government spends almost three hours the discussing this issue also will break in early at least so your ministry will have some and it's not like some stranger will come and you have to fight with him later on because that would be iran. no of course not the united grain company barons the chair of the board is a strategic company put off quickly as it is this company that sells grain from the intervention fund. this grain is sold on the marketable form of it goes to our agricultural companies a factory by the drought but has a company will continue working in this way with interventions only this we will still control as activities because the company plays

a crucial role on the food markets of the law. you should work with my next question is important to you is the shadow this company a company and how will russia's accession to the w c o a third of the competitiveness of the russian agricultural producers including on the world market . so making our industry compacted is a task of paramount importance. is a national priority program and we have increased production of poultry by seventy five percent. and pulled by forty percent which is very important. all that was made possible was the launch of two thousand five hundred modern new liquid farms in may respects better than similar farms abroad. it goes without saying their products are competitive. because we harmonize all

with karen or e. and feature sanitary regulations was those in the you will certainly start to export our products to those countries. eating prime minister regime or putting haydn brussels where we can all sell our dairy products on the european market we have harmonized our grocers our with kerry nary requirements are considered sufficient until international. buehrle. i can tell you that the bureau will soon open an office in russia this office will cover fifty two countries around the world. will view this as a sign of trust and will certainly continue barking in this direction. so how competitive high quality goods and new x. pools offer a good opportunity for our industry to grow our core with a crowbar on this issue of joining the w t o first came up with and i think this

was even before your appointment officially our think our agricultural producers who were the main opponents of the accession there were yours but the you seem to have no fear of the w t o or does this mean that all the problems have been solved maybe you are still afraid. the w t o u r u or not my senior the negotiation process has been very hard i think botany myself and we still have some things to finalize like i said the territory and they just sanitary regulations this work is complex if you clear about everything and you conduct negotiations properly there is nothing to be afraid of after all all the countries share the same approach response to supporting the agricultural industry the level of state support and that we have agreed on a sufficient sample not long go either is it australia has it tell me is the

support us as regards this level of state support and our w t o aspirations in general so we need to keep working on this i mean we need to explain clarify our situation and i have high quality composite and environmentally clean products i know that the main animists of agricultural producers are agents monopolists who boost the food prices actually and this happens not only in russia but the same thing happens all over the world as far as i can tell about when it come in consumer like myself s. or person like you why the price for milk is so high the answer is always that it's all because a middleman are you able to do something about it in russia or is it impossible to recognize civil this requires a systemic approach and directly working on that. for us to have adopted a law on government regulations for trade and we are also developing production brogues ample we're developing family dairy farms where farmers sells

a milk or natural of their own shops. just making the prices more combative. if the hour anti-monopoly service also works and there's a bug or two there be collusion or overblown prices. investigate the situation our ministry has a hotline to receive complaints about price hikes over say for milk. we're ready to deal with such complaints. however production is the key of what we need to produce enough to meet the demand of at this point we produce enough grain to meet the demand it will soon meet the demand for melt poultry meat and pork. so there is no shortage of prices bull reasons as a munch and is the road market situation and the drought aftermath for this year but in any case we need to control the situation everybody is welcome with karmazin

questioners and we're ready to deal with problems with them but. i mean be mistaken but i think countries like the neverland swar hungary are supplying more food part of studio pre-market than russia but if you are going to change in fact russia's capable to provide food for the whole of europe you plainly got a new trick in our history books to see that russia used to provide grain for the whole of europe and. that's absolutely right which of course developing exports is a growth opportunity for our industry were fully aware of there as well modernizing our industry. after systemic government support to have a government. graham another fundamental document for the development of all agriculture is the food security doctrine which says domestic production should cover ninety percent of the demand for dairy products eighty five percent for need

with ninety five percent for grain and so forth. but definitely increasing production values. z. amount of government support and further plans for developing the industry so you are all presented in syria's government documents like the food security dark train so business people consider our industry attractive for investment i'm sure will soon be exporting our goods. from a newspaper will have oppressed day just the right year and my million within the next couple of months or russia and the e.u. will fully harmonize their return area regulations for poultry meat and pork looked a little russian companies start exporting their products to european markets and has richard this is great but do we have such forms of farmers are ready to sell their meat on western markets and another would be sure. we do has this company

has they produce food products a very high quality market if you go to a supermarket you can compare domestic food products with imported words. and you will see that they're not inferior to them for their own bettering quality a year we aren't down or like you say. i'll try to upset you once again i'm going to be afraid you can't be worth of memorable well you know this perfectly well yourself you see when you shop we have a huge amount of important what they're going to do for and these are products that you would expect to be produced in russia like tomatoes or potatoes why sold a very has developed into a sort of addiction if we remove foreign producers it seems as if. we'll have nothing to eat oh no because certainly have something to be. our meat production is good. but we can't achieve in five years the same results as the west achieved

in eighty five years but why did it happen was it more expedient for circumstantial or economic development to import food for you know the situation perfectly well and so do our viewers. we're developing our agricultural industry systemically and how the government program until twenty twenty. and we're positing it is suitable export our food products of high quality environmentally clean at a competitive price. under our retail chains like a copy or a george grant if you want to sell to mastic products or do you prefer imported goods because they're easier to sell. i need rule of law for says they do take the mastic products for instance vegetables was or was in watermelons irony in potatoes and so forth those categories domestic products sell but are also on the same is

true of poultry neat and poor has a new cute when you call me of them all so i peel. not ellis agricultural minister. but also patriots of all country and if you put that up because you was my you fashion the must tickle your dish in the first place to support our domestic farmer but all of it as you systemic approach will make it possible to please production volumes where your mobile is also our rate production of poultry meat by seventy five percent. by more than forty percent in five years i was meaning it for you from. a cereal you must agree serious when you. had milk while it was grown if not for the drought pluto's a slight decrease but will compensate is good help of our gardens and bellows a lot of us were in terms of grain how every college town shoal and i'm sure if

kerosene is all right with the weather this year will return to the international market at the same level as in two thousand and nine the law. gives a ball down stall systemic measures or now as a favorable investment climate. we will be manufacturing high quality food products thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest on the show today was less clinically russian agriculture spotlight will be back with more full time promise on going in and outside russia so stay on party and.

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