Belarus has proposed Russia to establish a single food market

"We propose to work together, to create a single market, to ensure food security of our common market together and then think about what we will import from outside", - said the representative of the Ministry of agriculture and food.

Bogdanov stated that "in the Russian market from the point of view of the consumer, we are doing well, customer loyalty and confidence in the quality of goods is high". "But constant conflicts really exist. We believe that this is lobbying of certain interests, including the ones of importers of similar goods from third countries", Bogdanov said.

Taking into account the problems with limited supplies of Belarusian foodstuffs to Russia, in Minsk they declare the necessity of diversification of the export of agricultural products. "Therefore, we are constantly orienting our producers to be engaged in export diversification. Actually, over the past year we removed 5% of the total volume of supplies to the Russian Federation and reoriented it to other markets", Bogdanov said.

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