t he introduction of market ori ented economic reforms fol lowing the breakup so viet union in 1992 initially resulted sharp declines russia s food production while liberalization foreign trade encouraged greater im ports processed foods into further progress on re forms could result a more mod ern efficient and competitive industry over next 10 to 20 years resulting new oppor tunities for processing firms seeking export or invest sector contracts sharply with 8 000 plants can satisfy only about 50 80 percent domestic needs major products this is due partly large out put extensive onfarm pro cessing which bypasses quantity produced fell nearly half between 1990 1995 as output virtually every declined substan tially ranging from 90 concentrated such dried soups fruit juices 16 granulated sugar table 1 no product showed an crease reasons these include
