OREANDA-NEWS. On 25 May 2009 was announced, that World Grain Forum which will be held in St. Petersburg at “Lenexpo” on June 6-7, 2009 aroused great interest, the event is urgent. –said Zubkov.

- It will help to revise old approaches to this problem and make grain market structure clear.

Arkadiy Zlochevskiy, president of Russian Grain Union, also noted that Russia had not only become a permanent grain exporter but it’s planning to take the second place among grain exporters of the world and it had the chance to stand surety for the world food grain safety.

Mr. Zubkov also claimed that Russia’s planning to enlarge it traditional grain export geography, especially to the places with growing demand: to the countries of Asian and Pacific Ocean region.

That’s is why it has been decided to form Far-East grain corridor. Siberia produces good sorts of wheat and this region could become a large grain producer along with the traditional South regions.

Mr. Zubkov believes that these plans could give a great stimulus for private investments into the projects.