Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev, who is in charge of agriculture, has proposed the creation of a grain organization along the lines of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing his office.
According toReuters, the world’s leading grain exporters could form the OPEC-like group, Gordeyev said at a meeting with German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner in Cologne on Saturday, Interfax reported.
“粮食欧佩克”目标,确保稳定the grain market, coordinate price policy and solve world hunger problems and might include Russia, the European Union, the United States, Canada, and Argentina, among others, Gordeyev told the meeting, according to Interfax.
