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Russia may extend grain export embargo until end of 2011: deputy PM 08:56,
The Russian government has considered an option of extending embargo on grain export till the end of 2011, First Deputy Prime Minister Victor Zubkov said on Wednesday.
Speaking to the agricultural convention in Russian city of Tambov, Central Russia, Zubkov said he "did not excluded" such a possibility.
"If the situation unfolds that we need to supply ourselves reliably and carry stocks to fill the intervention fund again -- well, I don't exclude (the option)," Zubkov was quoted by local media as saying.
The Russian government has introduced ban on grain export since August 2010 after severe drought which has affected the country's most productive regions.
Also on Wednesday, Farmers Association's convention discussed the hottest issues Russian farmers faced, with the presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Putin promised that the government would support agricultural sector by transferring property rights of lands to those who work on these lands.
According to local media reports, currently in Russia about 24 million hectares, or 80 percent of agricultural lands have no private owners.
Putin said that the state would pay about 50 percent of the prices of these lands and the regional governments would pay the other half.
"Thus, we will free people who are going to work on these lands of that burden," Putin said, adding that these lands "must be given to people who want to become farmers."
In Russia, private farmers have produced nearly half of all the country's agricultural output.
Source: Xinhua