Belarus plans to supply to the capital of Russia in 2016 of about 600 million tons of food, told correspondents on Wednesday in Minsk, 1st Deputy Minister of agriculture and food of Belarus Leonid Marinich.
in Minsk signed a balance of food supplies from Belarus to the Russian capital for the next year.
"in this balance we 600-630 million tons projected to deliver," said Marinich.
He noted that the case, for example, about 33 thousand tons of beef, 9 thousand tons of poultry meat, 40 thousand tons of butter, 36 thousand tons of cheese. The Deputy Minister said that the balance would increase supply in comparison with the prediction of the current year by 2-3%.
Deputy head of the Department of trade and services of Moscow Denis Kostornoi also said that Belarus will supply to the Russian Federation in 2016 60 thousand tons of salt.
"Today we signed a contract with the "Belgospischeprom" concern about supplies for the following year, 60 thousand tons of salt, " said Kostornoi.
He expressed gratitude to Belarusian colleagues for the prompt resolution of the issue of increasing supplies of salt this year after Russia banned from several Ukrainian plants." Just two days, we agreed on the nomenclature and volumes of supply, " He said.
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