Ag minister says fuel supplies to farmers improve gradually

MOSCOW, Oct 6 (PRIME) -- The situation with fuel and lubricants supplies to the farmers, and their availability during the seasonal field works is gradually improving, Deputy Agriculture Minister Andrei Razin said at a trade fair on Friday.

"Serious decisions have been made that started to stabilize the market. We have seen today that the situation with diesel fuel and gasoline in the country as a whole has started to reverse gradually, it has not returned to the level of mid-July and the start of August yet, but we still hope that taking into account the earlier taken measures, the price situation will stabilize," Razin said.

The official separately said that the Agriculture Ministry stands against possible imports regulation as a  means of crop protection having no analogs in Russia.

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