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ago) and haseen a point of focus for various state agencies. Food chains have been actively participating in price monitoring on a weekly basis, and have also introduced targeted initiatives to cope with the price growth in soft commodities (including zero mark-ups for socially important products).We consider there could be a wide range of outcomes,but there is little clarity on how this could develop.
9.1.6 Agriculture sector news
Russia is on course to have its third largest ever wheat harvest. The ministry is predicting 72.3MMT (bunker weight) from 25.3MHA at a yield of 2.86MT/HA.
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