On National Unity Day, the TV BRICS media network launches a new media project in Russia on grain production and international coordination in the field of food security. The documentary series “BRICS Grain” tells about the economic and economic importance of different types of grain, the achievements of Russia’s agricultural regions, agricultural and bakery technologies, and grain exports.
The program will premiere on November 4, 2025 on the Russian-language TV channel TV BRICS. After the screening in Russia, the BRICS Grain cycle will be adapted into foreign languages and transmitted to the media partners of the media network in different countries of the world.
“The BRICS Grain international media project performs an important ideological function, telling about the development of the Russian agro-industrial complex and cooperation between the BRICS countries in the context of food security. At the same time, it is an effective format for promoting Russia’s export potential in the global information field and an effective way to form a brand of agricultural products. The BRICS Grain media project includes not only wide distribution in the leading media of the BRICS countries and participation in international and national film festivals, it also provides for educational events, including teleconferences on learning Russian as a foreign language on agriculture,” said Ivan Zakharenko, director of the TV BRICS Thematic Media Projects Department.
The BRICS Grain cycle includes eight episodes of 26 minutes each, each dedicated to a specific type of grain and the Russian regions where it is cultivated and processed. The premiere season features films about wheat, rye, corn, buckwheat, barley, oats, rice and legumes. Filming took place in the Kuban, the Volga region, Siberia and Central Russia, including the Republic of Tatarstan, the Altai and Krasnodar Territories, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Saratov and Tula regions.
Leading experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences and federal research centers, including the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Scientific Research Institute of the Bakery Industry, the N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, the Federal Agrarian Scientific Center of the South-East, the Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology and food safety.
The BRICS Grain program will be broadcast on TV BRICS from November 2025 to January 2026. The first film is dedicated to wheat, one of Russia’s main export products. This issue can be seen on November 4, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Next, the program will be broadcast biweekly on Mondays, with repeats on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
The documentary series “BRICS Grain” was created with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The project is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the field of food and the final declaration of the XVII BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which emphasizes the importance of ensuring food security and nutrition, as well as developing national strategies and international coordination aimed at improving the availability, sustainability, stability, and suitability of food.
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The TVBRICS international media network was established in 2017 following the results of the BRICS Heads of State Summit in Xiamen (China), becoming a practical implementation of the initiative supported by the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa on the need to “establish cooperation in the media, including exploring the possibility of creating a common TV channel “five” to disseminate objective information. about the BRICS activities.” The headquarters of TV BRICS is located in Moscow (Russia).
TV BRICS is the latest system of multilateral information exchange between the media of the BRICS+ countries. The partners interact through the multilingual TV BRICS portal and the 24-hour TV channel of the same name. More than 100 major media outlets from 29 countries act as permanent partners of TV BRICS, while the media network’s information presence reaches 80 countries.
The mission of TV BRICS is to create a unified BRICS information space, to disseminate objective information about the humanitarian and economic activities of the participants and partners of the association.
As an international partner, TV BRICS provides communication and information support for major international events in the BRICS+ countries, provides media support for the activities of government authorities, government, non-profit and public organizations. It cooperates with higher educational institutions, including members of the BRICS Network University, and organizations in the field of cinematography in order to develop professional industries, expert communities and promote the ideology of unification through education and art. He initiates his own humanitarian projects and co-organizes international and national events in the BRICS+ countries.
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