The Ministry of agriculture has identified lack of salt in the Russian Federation due to falling supply from Ukraine

The Ministry of agriculture has documented the lack of salt in the Russian Federation due to falling supplies from Ukraine, said Deputy Minister of agriculture of Russia Andrey Volkov in the process of the forum on food security of Russia ".
Indicators (security of Russia) salt underestimated. This is caused by a large enough amount of salt from Ukraine, " said Volkov, quoted by TASS." due to the logistics business was slightly more profitable it (salt) to put Ukraine ", - said the Deputy Minister. Wolf added that currently there is a shift sources of supply. According to the received information of the Association of producers and suppliers of food items (Rusprodsoyuz), the share of imported edible salt in 2013 in the Russian Federation amounted to 40% (approximately 0, 6 million tons). Annual demand for Russia in edible salt is about 1, 5-1, 6 million tons. Ukraine last year was put on the market of the Russian Federation 0, 5 million tons of salt or 80% of total imports. The largest importer of salt in the Russian Federation - Ukrainian state enterprise of a disused. The company has delivered to the Russian Federation in 2013, 1, 6 million tons of edible and industrial salt. The disused suspended production in the spring of 2014 due to destabilization of the economic situation in Ukraine. In the total trade turnover between Russia and Ukraine decreased by 17, 2% - 28, 449 billion to 23, 55 billion dollars. First Ukrainian authorities stated that over the past eight months, exports from Ukraine in the Customs Union countries fell by 30%, exports to the EU increased by 15%, or 1, 3 billion dollars.


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