21 Nov 2012 11:35

Russian Agriculture Ministry to start massive grain interventions in Feb

MOSCOW. Nov 21 (Interfax) - The Russian Agriculture Ministry plans to start massive commodity interventions (grain sales from the state fund) on the grain market in February 2013.

"The Agriculture Ministry's proposal remains: we will transfer the bulk of grain sales to a more difficult time - February and March 2013," Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilya Shestakov said at the third international conference 'Grain Industry in the 21st Century' on Wednesday in Moscow.