Russian government will ban exporting crop produce to keep domestic food prices in the country under control.

Russia is one of the biggest producers of rye, barley and wheat in the world. After wildfires rages and damaged wide areas of agricultural farms across Russia, the government set a ban for the export of the grain products of the country to prevent the price increases the amount of the grain crops and products in the market.

The order was to assess that the country can still deliver the necessary amount for their people’s needs and to keep the domestic food cost to be under control and to prevent the inflation in the country. According to the agriculture ministry, the quantity of the agricultural crops the country had this year was not fairly enough to meet the domestic demand of the country.

According to the statistics, almost third of the agricultural crops were dropped, compared to the quantity been harvested last year in Russia.

There were series of wildfires burning across the Russian country especially to the central part in Moscow for almost three weeks. The worst catastrophe ever experience in the country for 130 years.  Many people died due to the heat-wave. However, officials said that almost 75 percent of the fires across the country were already ceased and terminated by volunteers and firefighters.

Government official does not elaborate when will be the crop product’s ban may end. However, the Russian leader President Dmitry Medvedev foresees that the lifting of the ban may occur before the year ends.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed to keep the ban until the crop supplies in the country get better in 2011.

The prime minister said that the crops harvested this year was still unable to cover the domestic consumption in the country, after the crops shortfall from 97 million tons last year down to 60 million tons this year, wherein the total amount needed domestically was 80 million tons.

Category : Breaking News, Posted at Aug 16th 2010
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