The State Duma pointed out the problems in the food security of Russia

The situation with food supply to the population is stable, however, dependence on imports is recorded in a number of areas. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Affairs Nadezhda Shkolkina ("United Russia") during the party meeting.

“We are practically self-sufficient in terms of the main types of products. We fully provide ourselves with grain, which means flour, bread, pasta. We practically provide ourselves with the main cereals, these are rice, millet, buckwheat. We have a little shortage of food oats, but it is easy to replace it with other grain crops,” Shkolkina noted.

Russia fully provides itself with poultry meat, pork meat, eggs, vegetable oil, there is a small deficit in sugar, but, according to the deputy, "in principle, it is quite easily replenished."

“We provide ourselves with the main types of vegetables and fruits, we practically import or imported those that are not produced in our country due to natural and climatic conditions,” she clarified.

Russia also provides itself in full with compound feed. Shkolkina also drew attention to a number of problems in the field of import substitution.

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“But we need some vitamins and amino acids that we imported from abroad. We also have a high dependence on certain types of seed material, we have a dependence on breeding biomaterial and on some ingredients, for example, sour-milk whey for dairy products and a vitamin-mineral complex for dry mixes,” the parliamentarian clarified.