The grain harvest in Russia by the end of the harvesting campaign in 2015 may exceed the initial forecast of the Ministry of agriculture, said the first Deputy Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Evgeny Gromyko journalists in Barnaul.

"Overall, the Outlook for the grain harvest is not changed. If we are going to work as planned, we will be able not only to perform the benchmark, which is now just over 101 million tons. I hope that we will work even better. But in any case, food security will be ensured," he said.

According to E. Gromyko, currently of concern is the number of regions where the drought damaged part of the crop. "The difficult situation in the Samara, Saratov and Volgograd regions. There are partially - somewhere in the half of these subjects - the drought. Traditionally the problem is and the Orenburg region", - he said.