The basic business of Russia - agriculture

The basic business of Russia - agriculture. It is more than one half of its whole domestic trade is agricultural. Its agricultural products one and one half of times, is more than its products and ten times more than its products of a mining industry or its import. And though its manufacture of grain in an acre is the lowest in all Europe except Italy, Spain, both Portugal, and its full manufacture of all food products in an acre certainly lowest in Europe (it is no more than that one third from Spain which is then the lowest), nevertheless to it is possible to export quantity of grain than any other country in Europe, France, only sometimes the excluded. Export of Russia within several past years has averaged grains 266 000 000 in a year. Its export of one only has averaged wheat 94 000 000 in a year, or much more than one fifth full export of wheat of the world. The explanation of this huge export of wheat from so bad country consists that three quarters of people live on a rye. Among peasants the white loaf is actually unknown, and nothing could be more pathetic than firm blocks of a rye which have passed as bread during last hunger. Other agricultural export (besides grain) is flax, hashish, a pie of a seed of olive culture, a linen seed and a grass seed, oil, eggs, a wool, disappear, and bristles of hogs. Wood, wood, and wood also are extensively exported. England - the best client of Russia. The quantity of annual import of England of aforementioned products (including grain) exceeds 112 000 000$.
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MINERAL RICHES OF RUSSIA