{"id":262206,"date":"2017-08-21T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=262206"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:11:09","slug":"bumper-grain-crop-in-russia-set-to-break-soviet-era-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/bumper-grain-crop-in-russia-set-to-break-soviet-era-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper grain crop in Russia set to break Soviet-era record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>USA and France dwarfed again\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Russia is forecast to produce a record grain crop this year, exceeding the numbers last seen in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Moscow-based grain consultant ProZerno, Russia is expected to harvest 130.7 million metric tons this year. It is 2.6 percent more than the previous record set in 1978 before the Soviet-Afghan War.<\/p>\n<p>ProZerno predicts a record harvest of wheat of 80.1 million tons. Barley is expected to reach 19 million tons. &#8220;Corn is not that far at 16.3 million tons, which is also a record,\u201d said Vladimir Petrichenko, director general of the company in an interview with Agroinvestor.ru.<\/p>\n<p>Petrichenko added that Russia could set a record harvest of peas and beans. He admitted there could be problems with storage of the record crop in several regions of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been investing more in agriculture after the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore funds are invested in the industry, which allows using quality seeds, plant protection products, efficient machinery,&#8221; said Petrichenko, explaining the growth in Russian grain production.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is the world&#8217;s largest grain producer and wheat exporter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/400412-russia-bumper-crop-grain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/400412-russia-bumper-crop-grain\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: USA and France dwarfed again\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":285189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}