MOSCOW, May 18. Russia provides itself with all basic types of food, self-sufficiency in grain is 185.4%, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting on the progress of spring field work.< br />He noted that, in general, the Russian agro-industrial complex shows a very positive trend.
«We provide ourselves with all the main types of food… There is also something to say here, I looked for reference: self-sufficiency in grain is 185.4 %, for meat — 101.6%, for fish — 153%, vegetable oil — 211%, sugar — 103.2%, approached the required benchmarks for vegetables — 89.2%, for potatoes — 93.4%, for milk — 85.7%,» Putin said.