date:Sep 05, 2016
Zahid Khan, the CEO of the Russian Business Council for Cooperation with Pakistan said on Thursday 1 September that Pakistani farmers are willing to increase their food exports to Russia fivefold, up to 1 million metric tons per year.
Khan also stressed that the logistics for exports is imperfect currently, as Pakistan is forced to deliver products through St. Petersburg, and only then to Moscow, Krasnoyarsk and Astrakhan. As a result, average container journey time to Russia is from one to thr