The State Duma in the third reading adopted amendments to the federal budget for 2019 and the planning period 2020-2021. In accordance with them, budget revenues will increase by 206 billion rubles, expenses - by 256 billion rubles.
"These funds will be used primarily for solving social problems, for implementing the message of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly," said State Duma Chairman Viacheslav Volodin, whose words are quoted on the website of the lower house of parliament.
At the same time, expenditures on the state program for the development of agriculture for this year have been reduced by 1 billion rubles. up to 302,6 billion rubles. "The changes in budgetary allocations proposed by the bill do not lead to a change in the target values of the indicators (indicators) of the state program for the development of agriculture," the explanatory note states.
Amendments, in particular, by 6,2 billion rubles. Reduced transfers to regions to reimburse part of the cost of paying interest on investment loans in the agro-industrial complex. As stated in the explanatory note to the bill, such a decision was made "based on the results of monitoring the effectiveness of the use of federal budget allocations for 2019 for the specified purposes." Another 150 million rubles. “Due to changes in borrowers' sampling schedules for concluded agreements,” subsidies to banks for the implementation of the concessional lending mechanism were reduced. Also by 31 million rubles. the expenses of the Ministry of Agriculture for current repairs of premises were reduced "in connection with the clarification of the need for funds."
At the same time, amendments to the federal budget for 4,8 billion rubles. funding for reimbursement of direct costs incurred for the creation and modernization of agricultural facilities is increasing, another 350 million rubles. allocated as a grant support to farmers for the development of potato breeding and seed production for 24 scientific and technical projects. An additional 100 million rubles. will be provided to "Rosagroleasing" to reimburse the lost income under leasing agreements, 50 million rubles. will go to the development of the concept of creating a digital platform for the agro-industrial complex within the framework of the departmental project "Digital Agriculture".
The decision to increase the cost of reimbursing CAPEX is due to the fact that the previously allocated funds for these purposes have already ended, explained “Agroinvestment"Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues Ayrat Khairullin. “There has been no selection of new projects since last autumn, because there was simply no free money. Therefore, additional 5 billion rubles were requested, ”Khairullin specified. In addition, later another 4 billion rubles. can be allocated for the program of renewal of agricultural machinery. “Now certain amounts have been distributed under various items, but most of the budget surplus remains unallocated. So I'm sure that when Ministry of Agriculture will present the State Duma with its finally verified tasks and figures, the State Duma will definitely support them. They will concern support for Rosagroleasing and our agricultural producers, ”Khairullin said.
Starting next year, in addition to the state program for the development of agriculture, financing of the state program for the development of rural areas will begin, the parliamentarian recalled. The document was approved by a government decree of May 31, 2019. “The program itself has not been finished yet and is in an active work process. However, it is closely related to the agricultural development program, and is aimed at creating comfortable living conditions, ”Khairullin said. In particular, he expects, within the framework of the program, rural residents will be able to take out mortgage loans at 1% per annum.
Initially, the federal budget for this year provided 303,6 billion rubles for state support of agriculture. - by 62 billion rubles. more than the planned amount of financing in 2018. According to the documents submitted to the amendments to the budget, by May 1, 2019, the cash execution of the state program of the agro-industrial complex amounted to 85,3 billion rubles.
Source: https://www.agroinvestor.ru/