Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia would face no food shortages because of the abnormally hot summer weather.

(Kazan, July 27, Tatar-inform). Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia would face no food shortages because of the abnormally hot summer weather, reports Itar-Tass.

“Heat means a hard time for agriculture. Many Russian regions have declared the state of emergency,” Putin told Russian journalists after his brief meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in Foros, the Crimea, on July 24.

“I am absolutely confident that we will get over these hard times,” Putin said.

“We will allocate necessary resources from the reserve fund to support the agriculture, including direct loans and subsidies, Russian government guarantees and the sale of feeder grain for livestock to our agricultural producers,” the Russian prime minister went on to say.

“There’s an entire support package. The problem is to make the heads of enterprises to act quickly and energetically to be able to submit expert examination reports on the volume of the required aid,” Putin said.

The prime minister confirmed that Russia wouldn’t suffer any food shortages. “Against the background of unfavourable weather conditions, we have two favourable conditions which are the presence of financial reserves and the existence of a grain fund,” Putin concluded.