date:Jun 05, 2014
yet clear what will happen with the hryvnia (currency) and how all this will develop, Natalia Merkusheva, trade and markets economist at FAO, told the conference.
For Russia, high debt and a lack of machinery and fertilisers remain the main problems for farmers and their crops, Deputy Agriculture Minister Andrey Volkov told the conference. He did not say whether these factors had been taken into account in his crop forecast.
The high debt burden is the number one illness now, Volkov said. If i