In Russia in the near future, a strong potato deficit or an increase in its import is possible. This is stated in the fresh monitoring of the economic situation in Russia prepared by the RANEPA, RNS reports.
According to him, today the country produces about 20 million tons of crops per year, taking into account new seeds, the share of consumption and losses, which is extremely small and threatens with a shortage or the need to actively import the missing volumes. The same data were provided by experts from the Gaidar Institute.
Analysts have compared Rosstat data with the new revised data after the latest All-Russian agricultural census. It turned out that serious mistakes had crept into the first of them. For example, they turned out to be in the estimates of the production of potatoes, fruits and vegetables, vegetables and melons and berries. In particular, Rosstat named a figure of 29,59 million tons of potatoes for 2017, but according to the census, it was 21,77 million.
The Ministry of Agriculture has not yet commented on the situation.
Source: http://rosng.ru