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I would expect food to be much cheaper in Russia due to the abundance of farmland. Same for energy.
by lostmsu 5y ago
I would expect food to be much cheaper in Russia due to the abundance of farmland. Same for energy.
- user432678 5y agoI would not say there’s an abundance of farmland. Yes, it’s quite big, but most of the Russian territory actually has quite extreme climate conditions, not suitable for farming. And even good farmland is actually abandoned, which always surprised me. I was travelling by car from Saint Petersburg to Sochi every summer till 2016. Huge areas filled with nothing but weeds, or even worse — toxic and hard to eradicate hogweed. So food there usually a little bit cheaper (not much) just because it’s a lot lower quality.