MOSCOW, February 29. /TASS/. Russia’s agriculture sector is to add one quarter by 2030, while exports should increase by half, President Vladimir Putin said in his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly (parliament).

"By 2030 the production of Russia’s agriculture sector is to add at least one quarter compared with 2021 while exports should rise by half," he said.

Putin particularly emphasized the work of small and mid-sized businesses in the agriculture sector. Russia not only fully supplies itself with food, it is also a leader on the global wheat market and it is one of top twenty countries exporting food, he noted.