Russia should export food grain from the country's south and import feed grain instead, National Grain Producers Union President Pavel Skurikhin said on Tuesday.
Russia's southern regions hold about 10 million tons of surplus food grain, while drought-hit central regions suffered from feed grain shortages,Skurikhin said.
"To my mind, it would be reasonable to use (southern) grain ... maybe to sell it abroad, and to import the same amount of feed grain," Skurikhin told a news conference.
Russia banned grain exports from August 15, 2010 to June 30, 2011 in response to the country's worst drought in decades. RIA Novosti
