Russia is interested in acquiring additional supplies of corn, soy and barley from Ukraine, according to Viktor Slauta, the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine.

V.Slauta, will visit Moscow on April 6 for negotiations with Viktor Zubkov, the First Vice-Premier of Russia.

According to V.Slauta, Russia deals with active development of animal production, and is highly interested in grain supplies from Ukraine.

At the same time, Ukraine, which has grain carry-over stocks estimations at the end of the current marketing year at 3.5 million tonnes, plans to sell its grain surpluses in order to ease pressure on grain prices of the new harvest, added V.Slauta.