SOLNECHNODOLSK /Stavropol Region/, March 5. /TASS/. Russia's revenues from exports of agricultural products increased 30 times, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

"Last year, export revenues reached $43.5 bln. The volume increased 30-fold - not just some percentage, but export revenues increased 30 times," Putin said.

In his opinion, such results "only recently seemed absolutely unrealistic." "If they had said in 2000 that we would have 43.5 bln in export revenue, no one would have believed it, it seemed like some kind of fantasy. But these are the realities today," Putin emphasized.

He recalled that in 2022, 157 mln tons of grain were exported, and in 2023 - 147 mln tons. "No one has ever seen such harvests," Putin noted.

Russia has become the fourth country in the world in terms of agricultural exports with revenues reaching $43.5 bln, he added.

"We have become the fourth country in the world in terms of exports of agricultural products, and the first country in the world in terms of wheat. Revenues from selling products on foreign markets amounted to <...> $43.5 bln," Putin said.