
In Russia already by the end of the year could be the first bananas of domestic production, the general director of the Association of Development of Subtropical Agriculture Andrey Platonov reported. Ob this writes TASS.
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“Today we confirm that this is possible. Today the greenhouse is being laid. There is a program, we re implementing it. If everything works out, by the end of this year we will show you bananas grown in Russia”, – Platonov said Platonov to Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut.
Minister, in her turn, noted, that the subordinate she department is ready to produce bananas, if it will be economically possible. She specified that bananas are not yet included in the government’s list of agricultural products.
“We have wheat, barley, corn, apples, pears – everything we need for our life. And we can hypothetically insert any products. Now our growers are trying to insert bananas”, – the Minister specified.
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