The General meaning of the note is that, despite the expected decline in the West of this sector of the Russian economy, we have not only managed to establish sufficient for the domestic market production of agricultural machinery, but also significantly increased exports.

Here are the dry figures: in 2016, we sold equipment abroad for about 6.6 billion rubles, in 2017 - almost 8, and at the end of 2018 - 11. The increase was more than 40%. So, 25% of the market of powerful tractors and 15% of combines operating in 45 countries are produced in Russia. The largest suppliers are the St. Petersburg Tractor Plant (the famous "Kirov workers") and Rostselmash (combine harvesters, seeders, etc.). At the end of his article, the French source sighs-wanted to punish Russia, and suffered only themselves...