Россия теряет более $860 млн из-за нехватки глубокой переработки зерна (15-03-2018)

Russia loses more than $ 860 million due to lack of deep grain processing (15-03-2018)

More than 860 million dollars loses to the Russian market due to the lack of capacity for deep processing of grain.

This follows from the data voiced by the Director of the Department of food and processing industry of the Ministry of agriculture Yevgeny Akhpashev.

Speaking at the conference "Deep grain processing: formation of the value chain", Akhpashev said that the potential market for deep grain processing in Russia is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars. This is more than three times compared to the current volume of production.

The head of the Department noted that today Russia meets the domestic demand for only two products of deep processing of grain — gluten and corn starch. These products even go for export.

"Glucose-fructose syrups are produced enough. For the rest of the products of deep processing Russia is still import-dependent",-quotes Adasheva press service of the Ministry of agriculture.

Deep grain processing is a very capital intensive business. The Ministry of agriculture promised to help entrepreneurs in this area by expanding state support in terms of partial compensation of costs.

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