Alexander Dvoynykh, who chairs the Federation Council committee on agrarian and food policy and natural resources, said professions in agriculture will never lose their value. His starting point is a stubborn global problem: the shortage of food has not gone away. As long as people go hungry somewhere, someone has to grow the food and get it to market, which keeps the sector's jobs in demand. Dvoynykh made the argument in remarks reported from Russia's upper house of parliament. The committee he leads handles the legislative side of farming and land use. Russia has positioned itself as one of the world's leading grain exporters, and the workforce behind that output has grown along with it. His message to anyone weighing the field was that agriculture has no expiration date.