Meeting of Leningrad region landholders held at Expoforum

About 300 heads of organisations and enterprises of agribusiness and fisheries industry of the Leningrad Region participated in the meeting on the industry results of 2014 and plans for the current year.

Aleksandr Drozdenko, Governor of the Leningrad Region, noted in his welcoming speech that in 2014 the Leningrad Region achieved an increase in gross agricultural output and maintained its leading position in the production of eggs, meat, chicken and milk per forage-fed cow. He said, “In general, the growth in volume of agricultural products in the Leningrad Region compared to 2013 was by 1.2% and we have reached 95 billion roubles. This means 41.5% of the gross output of the Northwest Region and 2.3% of Russia”.

The Governor also stressed, in order to further increase production volumes, several components are required, including the financial support for agrarians, the use of modern technology, the involvement in turnover of new farmland and attraction of personnel to the industry. Special attention at the federal level shall be paid to subsidising interest rates on loans, as well as to the financial support of investment projects as “46 investment projects worth more than 14 billion roubles have been set up in the Leningrad Region until now. It is quite difficult to count on implementation of these projects only by means of business”.

According to Dmitri Yuriev, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, the main weak link in the production chain of agricultural products, including the Northwest region, is the development of wholesale and distribution centres. They will become a definite alternative to the monopoly networks that allows levelling food price growth. The representative of the Ministry of Agriculture admitted that “At these sites, agrarians will be able to calibrate, wash, pack products and provide wide distribution of products with a very different value added”.

Dmitri Yuriev added that a new version of the programme for accelerated import substitution includes additional funds to support agrarians, “An additional 20 billion roubles shall be provided in 2016. As part of the government plan to support the economy, up to 54 billion roubles shall be provided for the agricultural sector. Today, we are working on these volumes”.

Rewarding of agribusiness employees and information exhibition of science, service and dealer agribusiness organisations of the Leningrad Region also took place during the meeting.

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Meeting of Leningrad region landholders held at Expoforum

About 300 heads of organisations and enterprises of agribusiness and fisheries industry of the Leningrad Region participated in the meeting on the industry results of 2014 and plans for the current year.

Aleksandr Drozdenko, Governor of the Leningrad Region, noted in his welcoming speech that in 2014 the Leningrad Region achieved an increase in gross agricultural output and maintained its leading position in the production of eggs, meat, chicken and milk per forage-fed cow. He said, “In general, the growth in volume of agricultural products in the Leningrad Region compared to 2013 was by 1.2% and we have reached 95 billion roubles. This means 41.5% of the gross output of the Northwest Region and 2.3% of Russia”.

The Governor also stressed, in order to further increase production volumes, several components are required, including the financial support for agrarians, the use of modern technology, the involvement in turnover of new farmland and attraction of personnel to the industry. Special attention at the federal level shall be paid to subsidising interest rates on loans, as well as to the financial support of investment projects as “46 investment projects worth more than 14 billion roubles have been set up in the Leningrad Region until now. It is quite difficult to count on implementation of these projects only by means of business”.

According to Dmitri Yuriev, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, the main weak link in the production chain of agricultural products, including the Northwest region, is the development of wholesale and distribution centres. They will become a definite alternative to the monopoly networks that allows levelling food price growth. The representative of the Ministry of Agriculture admitted that “At these sites, agrarians will be able to calibrate, wash, pack products and provide wide distribution of products with a very different value added”.

Dmitri Yuriev added that a new version of the programme for accelerated import substitution includes additional funds to support agrarians, “An additional 20 billion roubles shall be provided in 2016. As part of the government plan to support the economy, up to 54 billion roubles shall be provided for the agricultural sector. Today, we are working on these volumes”.

Rewarding of agribusiness employees and information exhibition of science, service and dealer agribusiness organisations of the Leningrad Region also took place during the meeting.

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