During his address to the Federal Assembly, the President drew attention to the favorable situation created by the sanctions for domestic producers.

"Problems in agriculture will exist almost forever, this area of the economy called the "black hole", but it turned out that it is not. The agricultural sector is successfully feeding a country and conquering the international markets. Exports APK than from the sale of armaments", — said Vladimir Putin.

In the field of arms exports, Russia is still a major position in 2015 to realize them in the external market at $14.5 billion, and agricultural products to more than 16 billion According to Vladimir Putin, the export of agricultural products in 2016 will provide $16.9 billion.

"Exports of agricultural products gives us today more than selling weapons. Recently we probably even couldn't imagine," — said the President.