On October 16, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Stavropol Territory, where they discussed the implementation of projects in the field of development of land reclamation in 2019. The meeting was attended by heads of agricultural enterprises implementing projects in the field of irrigation this year, representatives of design organizations and state examination in the field of construction.
In 2019, 18 agricultural producers are participating in the program, in whose territories the construction of irrigated lands on an area of more than 10 thousand hectares is being implemented. At present, irrigation systems have already been commissioned on a total area of over 1,2 thousand hectares in the St. George City District, as well as in the Kursk, Budyonnovsk and Aleksandrovsky municipal districts.
- Development of land reclamation is one of the priority areas. Today we are already working on budgeting for an additional 600 million rubles for 2020. Thus, over 1 billion rubles will be provided for supporting land improvement next year, ”said Vladimir Sitnikov, Minister of Agriculture of the Stavropol Territory.
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