MOSCOW, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Siberian Agrarian Holding Group, a privately owned Russian grain firm, is in talks to create a joint venture to grow Russian grain for supply to Saudi Arabia, the company's chairman said on Tuesday.
"Dialogue is at an active stage," Pavel Skurikhin told reporters on the sidelines of the Adam Smith Conferences Agri-Food Forum in Moscow.
"For us, Iran and Iraq are also interesting, as we may ship grain there via the Volga river," he said.
Skurikhin said his company was also considering a share issue, no earlier than in the autumn of 2010, to raise funds for its various projects.
He also said Siberian Agrarian Holding Group, together with Japanese trading house Itochu Corp, was executing a contract to supply 1,000 tonnes of its feed wheat to Taiwan and that it planned to raise monthly volumes to 5,000 tonnes. (Reporting by Aleksandras Budrys, editing by Robin Paxton)