On September 22, Petr Chekmarev, Director of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection, took part in the VI branch business conference of the new season “Russian Crop Production - 2017/18. Crop production: a technological impulse "(conference organizer -" Agroinvestor "magazine). Speaking with a report on the state of the crop growing industry in Russia, Peter Chekmarev focused on state support for various agricultural areas.
First of all, Petr Chekmarev expressed gratitude to agricultural producers, who, despite the difficult conditions of the spring sowing, carried out the field work efficiently and provided proper care for the sown crops. Thanks to this, the country has a high harvest today. “The current weather conditions and forecasts for the next month give us hope that the harvesting campaign will be completed with good performance.
Also, the foundation is being laid for next year's harvest, and active sowing of winter crops is underway. It is also necessary to pay great attention to the quality of this sowing, ”Petr Chekmarev emphasized. The positive dynamics of agricultural production indicators is largely due to the high level of state support for farmers. Today, concessional loans and subsidies are received by investment projects aimed at the development of domestic agriculture, including the creation of selection and seed production centers, the construction and modernization of greenhouses.
Today, special attention is paid to the development of mushroom growing. “The mushroom industry has great prospects, niches within the domestic market are open for suppliers. In 2017, 6 investment projects were selected for the construction of mushroom-growing complexes with a design capacity of over 30 thousand tons of mushrooms. The total amount of approved soft loans for these projects is about 7 billion rubles ", - said Peter Chekmarev.
Speaking about subsidizing agriculture, Petr Chekmarev mentioned the possibility of revising the state support for the linen industry. In particular, answering the question about subsidizing this direction, the director of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection stressed that it is important to raise not only quantitative indicators, but also to improve the quality of flaxseed raw materials.
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