BERLIN, July 31. /TASS/. Claas will continue to deliver grain combine harvesters to Russia, Jan-Hendrik Mohr, CEO of the Germany-based agricultural machinery manufacturer, said on Monday.
"We cannot and we do not want to leave one of the critical agricultural regions of the world," Mohr said, as quoted by the NTV channel. Such products as combine harvesters are not under sanctions, as opposed to farm tractors, which can be used as ancillary vehicles in military conflicts, the TV channel said.
The termination of the Black Sea grain deal on July 17 will change "commodity flows and prices" and affect "the poorest among the poor," the agribusiness machinery executive noted. "Russia, where there is plenty of wheat, will be the least affected," Mohr said. "The impact on us in Europe is also lesser because we have the purchasing power to buy food from others," he noted, adding that this is "the humanitarian dilemma."