Logically speaking, how big could the agricultural market be? Russia produced its own grain, so even if American grain was cheap, how much could they really sell there?
Yet America stubbornly refused to budge on this condition. Everything else was negotiable, but Russia had to open up its agricultural sector.
Ordinary people might think it was because American politicians wanted votes.
After all, American farm owners were a powerful force. Most politicians did not dare offend them and had to fight for their interests as much as possible.
But Wang Ye understood that things were definitely not that simple!
Just as he had explained to the Kremlin before, agriculture was an issue of immense importance. On a larger scale, it concerned the survival of an entire nation!
Do not think Wang Ye was being alarmist. It was simply the truth.
Food was the first necessity of the people, and agriculture had long become America's strategic "weapon"!
Behind every global food crisis, America's shadow was never far away.
With its advantageous geography, vast plains across North America, and uniquely favorable climate, America's agriculture had already won at the starting line.
Combined with increasing mechanization and the fact that its homeland had been spared the ravages of war, America had become the world's largest food exporter as early as the last century!
For decades, right up to the present, America had remained firmly seated on that throne.
According to data, in 2005, America's food exports accounted for 25% of total global food exports, selling nearly 200 million tons of food to almost a hundred countries around the world!
The main crops were corn, wheat, sorghum, and soybeans.
Soybeans and corn were America's trump cards. Seventy percent of the world's countries had to import them from America and live at its mercy.
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