Russia says banning the import of food will not affect wheat exports :
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said on Thursday that Moscow's ban on imports of food from the United States and the European Union will not affect the Russian wheat exports.
The expectations of a possible disruption of shipments of wheat from the Black Sea region as a result of the crisis in Ukraine pushed wheat prices to rise in the Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade to the highest level in a month earlier this week.
Fyodorov told reporters in Moscow that was expected to reach the Russian wheat exports to 25 million tonnes in the marketing year 2014-2015alta began in the first of July.
And exports in 2013-2014 amounted to about 25.4 million tons of cargo and headed to most countries in Tier East, Africa and Asia.
Egypt, Turkey, Yemen and Iran, the biggest buyers of Russian wheat in 2013-2014 (July July June). Turkey and South Korea, the most important markets for corn Russian, while Saudi Arabia has bought more than half of Russian exports of barley.
