RUSSIA PLANS TO RESUME LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION OF FLAX AND WOOL ALMOST AFTER 30 YEARS’ PAUSE
April 1st, 2017
THE CONSTANT roll out of Russian government plans to diversify its industrial base has now turned its focus to textile raw materials, with Moscow unveiling plans to resume large-scale production of flax and wool.
These sectors, according to agriculture minister Alexander Tkachev, have been neglected over the past 30 years, since the fall of the USSR in 1991.
According to Tkachev, who was speaking at a May 1 Russian government ministerial meeting regarding flax, the government is keen to promote an increase in sowing in the Moscow region, one of the few Russian ...
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