Create excitement around buckwheat network retailers try to sell Chinese cereals imported in excess in 2011, said today in an interview with the correspondent of TASS Deputy head of the Department of agriculture of the Belgorod region Vasily Melnikov. According to him, buckwheat is a "strategic reserve, which is stored up to 5 years."

"Now, we need some way to empty warehouses. People will not buy something that exceeds the norm, and in conditions of hype and is allowed to do anything. Maybe the purpose of Stripping your warehouse from the old crop and it is done," said Melnikov.

Another version of deficiency cheap buckwheat in retail stores, according to him, "lie on the surface". "In Russia, unfortunately, most large retail chains owned by foreign owners, co-owners of which are Western Europeans. Maybe they decided us to teach. It is enough to compare rates with the cost of buckwheat in the network "Magnit", which is the only major domestic trading network," he said.

In the regional Department of agriculture believe that there is no reason for deficiency of buckwheat this year. Croppage of culture on 24 November amounted to 18.8 thousand tonnes, 5.6 thousand tons more than in 2013. This year the buckwheat in all categories of farms were under 11.3 thousand hectares - 0.8 thousand hectares more than last year, and the yield of 2.9 t/ha exceeded last year's figures - of 16.6 kg/ha instead of 13.7 t/ha in 2013.

Meanwhile, suppliers are notified of the retail network on the growth of prices for buckwheat and possible supply disruptions amid reports of adverse weather conditions for harvest in Siberia.

According to Rosstat, in comparison with 2013 production of buckwheat in Russia in January-October 2014 increased by 23.9%. Information about a possible shortage of cereals denied and the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation, noting that on November 19, 2014 crop of buckwheat in Russia amounted to 744,6 thousand tons with an annual demand of the country's 550 thousand tons (based on rate of consumption per person.