MOSCOW, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Russia has introduced a state of emergency in its Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk due to heavy rains that damaged local crops, TASS news agency quoted Sergei Ponomarenko, First Vice Governor of Krasnoyarsk region, as saying on Thursday.

"The preliminary volume of affected crops is more than 17,000 hectares, the estimated size of damage is more than 280 million roubles," the official said.

Earlier in September, another Siberian region - Tomsk - declared a state of emergency for the farm sector because of weather damage to crops.

Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut said last week the country still can export about 60 million metric tons of grain this year, with the official grain harvest forecast at 132 million tons despite bad weather that had hit many producing areas.

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