On March 4, Alexander Bogomaz took part in a meeting chaired by the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Dmitry Patrushev on the stabilization of food prices and food security.
The governor of the Bryansk region devoted part of his speech to the issues of interaction between retail chains and agricultural producers and, in particular, to the topic of a potential shortage of red potatoes.
“If you take the nets, they mainly took red potatoes a year ago. This year only white is taken. They did the analytics, they paid a lot of money, found a company that did the full analysis, and it turned out that red potatoes are sold eight times less than white ones. But if they asked an eighth-grader, not an excellent student, but who had a “troika” in mathematics, he would tell them that if red potatoes are on the shelf one and a half to two times more expensive than white ones, how much will it be sold? As a result, potatoes lie in the warehouse, seeds lie. If we do not take measures so that our agricultural producers understand what to do, what areas to plant and where there will be markets, if we do not plant red potatoes this year, there will be no red potatoes next year. We need to think about today's time, about spring field work, and about plans and tasks for the next year,” Alexander Bogomaz said.