The authorities pay top priority to the development of agriculture on the peninsula. Local farmers are financed both from the regional budget and from the federal treasury.
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Yuri Gotsanyuk said that since 2014, the republic’s agricultural producers have received 28 billion rubles in state support. This amount also includes tranches of the current year that managed to reach their recipients at the very beginning of the season.
Thanks to measures to finance the industry, the region managed to increase the area under cultivation by 1,3 times. And the built and modernized facilities today make it possible to store about 135 thousand tons of agricultural products.
The threat of drought remains in southern Russia
In the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts, reduced moisture content of the topsoil is observed. Such data appeared in the agrometeorological review of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia....