Alexander Baburin, chief of the city’s food department
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Moscow Buys Over 70 Percent of Food Overseas
In terms of foodstuffs, the import dependence of Moscow surged to 73 percent, Interfax reported with reference to Alexander Baburin, chief of the city’s food department.
The import dependence went up after 2004, Baburin specified. “It had been 89 percent until then, we lowered it to 65 percent in 2004 and it has surged to 73 percent,” Baburin said, blaming the inability of Russia’s cattle-breeding industry to satisfy the meat demands of Muscovites on the increased income of the nation and consumption growth.
“We have had to buy more abroad in the recent two years. It offends but it’s real,” Baburin said. According to Baburin, Moscow receives from its holdings nearly a half of all meat delivered from Russia’s regions. “Of all meat that we get from the RF regions, 45 percent is the meat of our agrarian holdings. Nearly a half. If we hadn’t gone into the integration three years ago, the import dependence would be much greater,” he pointed out.
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