This forecast was made Director General of the Institute for agricultural market studies (IKAR) Dmitry Rylko. "Last year we exported products to slightly more than $17 billion, this year has all the chances to reach $18 billion, could be higher,"he said.

According to him, in the first four months of this year, exports grew "by as much as 13 percent." "Rose in almost all categories: grain, oilseed. Sugar, by the way, broke the historical record to export", — said the head of ICARUS.

According to D. Rylko" four months of this year the exports of sugar amounted to more than 160 thousand tons. "This is without taking into account informal exports to Kazakhstan, which will be sent without proper registration", — he said. He reminded that for all of 2016 were exported to 126 thousand tons of sugar against 8 thousand tonnes in 2015.

Interesting fact Rylko said that this year the second place on deliveries from Russia moved to China: "If earlier the first place was occupied by Turkey and Egypt, where we exported grain and oilseeds in huge volumes, and then by a large margin was other countries, including Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, now rapidly growing exports to China.

This country is becoming a leading trade partner of Russia from the point of view of food export".

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