The domestic market in Russia in 2023 will be provided with plant protection products (PPP) in the required quantity, the difficulties of this year have been overcome, domestic companies are also increasing production, the executive director of the Russian Union of Producers of Chemical Plant Protection Products said at the conference "Agrotrends of Russia 2022-2023" » Vladimir Alginin.
“As for 2023, in fact, our companies have already decided on their volumes: we are planning a production volume of 140 tons. Today, Russian companies produce more than 55% (required in the domestic market of plant protection products), this year it will be 59% already. Taking into account the fact that a number of European companies produced a very large volume of products at Russian factories, we have enough capacity for today - more than 300 tons,” Alginin noted.
Thus, there is no particular danger in providing the domestic market with plant protection products for next year, he continued. “I do not think that companies (foreign - ed.) will leave our market. Our market is growing, quite stable, and we think that, taking into account the currency difference, this year we will reach the fifth or sixth place in the world in terms of the use of plant protection products,” Alginin said.
He estimates the volume of the entire market in 2023 approximately at the level of the current year - about 220-230 thousand tons. “You need to understand that European companies in the Russian market in the total amount occupy 25%, ours - 59%, and the rest is import by Russian companies from China,” Alginin explained. He also believes that gradually, in connection with the creation of their production facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, agricultural producers will begin to purchase the necessary drugs from domestic enterprises.
“Despite all the situational difficulties that have arisen in our industry, which depend on the import of active ingredients, the total production volume of Russian companies has grown by 5% this year - and this is taking into account all the logistical problems, problems due to the fact that we do not received from Europe, and were forced to look for new chains, ”Alginin noted.