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MOSCOW, January 12 Russia remains the world's breadwinner and a reliable supplier of agricultural products, and will continue humanitarian supplies of grain and fertilizers to Africa, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister said in an interview Victoria Abramchenko.
«Russia remains the world's breadwinner and reliable supplier. As you know, the first batches of humanitarian aid for grains and fertilizers have already gone to African countries, and they will continue to do so,» she said.
The Deputy Prime Minister recalled that the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) recently “openly admitted that Western sanctions on food and mineral fertilizers, logistics and payments lead to aggravation of the problem of world hunger.” “And this trend in the world will only grow,” she believes.
President Vladimir Putin announced Russia's intentions to send free grain as humanitarian aid to six African countries on the World Food Program list at the Russia-Africa summit in July last year. The first two ships with wheat, 25 thousand tons each for Somalia and Burkina Faso, left Russia in mid-November, reported Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev.
Humanitarian supplies of fertilizers to African countries are now carried out by the Uralchem company. The first such delivery of 20 thousand tons was sent from the Netherlands at the end of November 2022. In total, the company planned to donate about 300 thousand tons of mineral fertilizers to developing countries. Consignments of fertilizers have already been sent to Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe.