The Presidium of the Council for the Implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program (FNTP) for the Development of Agriculture for 2017-2025 agreed on projects to improve domestic potato seed production and outlined further plans for the development of subprograms at a meeting on November 14.
The program "Development of selection and seed production of potatoes in the Russian Federation" will be attended by 31 projects. Subsidies will be received by agricultural producers, universities and research institutions from 20 regions of the country.
Next year, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to finance projects selected under other programs, in particular, “Development of selection and seed production of sugar beets” and “Creation of domestic competitive crosses of poultry meat”. The agency will also begin to develop a program to increase the volume of domestic feed and feed additives for animals.
Deputy Prime Minister for Agriculture Alexei Gordeev emphasized that these programs need to involve business through industry unions.
“This will give an additional influx of investments and will form the understanding of Russian business that they create a single product, using common technologies. Thus, situations when all the latest approaches are run on the site of one enterprise and the rest of the market players are “sitting” on foreign genetics and selection, ”Gordeev said.
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