Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kirov Region, he is also the Minister of Agriculture and Food Alexei Kotlyachkov complained about the low harvest of grain and potatoes in the Kirov region this year.
The plans for the harvest of agricultural enterprises in the region are about 601 thousand tons of grain, including winter crops - 118 thousand tons, spring crops - 483 thousand tons (in pure form after processing).
The ear turned out to be weak and thin, due to the drought the crop failure was 15-20 percent of the planned indicators.
The potato yield is also planned to be low. Initially, it was planned to collect 39 thousand tons, but no one now hopes for this volume, since the weather conditions did not favor the yield.