Russian food exporters: competitiveness-related issues

As it is known, Russia is now one of the biggest food staffs importing countries. This is the fact that misleads those who think the Russian food makers are not competitive. According to some experts, this is not true. Today the Russian food stuffs producing companies show that their food exporting prospects are bright. If the state bodies keep supporting the exporters, the Russian companies would be able to increase the external and domestic market supplies of meat, fish, flour, cereals, confectionary products, alcoholic and soft drinks, flower seed oil, yoghurts, preserved milk products, ice creams, canned juices, etc. in the near future. In June 2007 the 2nd Competition: Strategy, Tactics, Patterns, Learning conference was held where the most pressing issues related to the Russian food exporters competitiveness level increase and the agricultural sector development prospects were discussed. Dmitry Bulatov, President of the of the National Food Exporters Union, and Vyacheslav Karpunin, Executive Director of the National Asset Management Foundation, talked about the above problems.