Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture to submit to the government draft acts on the allocation of 7 billion rubles from the reserve fund to support agriculture.
According to the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, the funds will be used to implement certain measures of the state program, including 5 billion rubles. will go to the provision of subsidies to reimburse part of the direct costs incurred for the creation and modernization of agricultural facilities. Now in the 2018 budget, only 100 million rubles are provided to reimburse part of the capex.
Also, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economic Development were instructed to provide for additional allocation of federal budget funds in the amount of up to RUB 2018 billion when preparing amendments to the 30 budget. for the implementation of the state program. Wherein Ministry of Agriculture will have to ensure that the volume of state support is not lower than the level of 2017, including measures aimed at increasing productivity in dairy cattle breeding, to reimburse part of the costs of farmers under insurance contracts, as well as subsidies for agricultural machinery manufacturers. In addition, it is planned to work out the issue of supporting high-tech investment projects in the agro-industrial complex at the expense of the Industrial Development Fund.
At the same time, the relevant ministries, together with the Bank of Russia and credit institutions, were invited to study the possibility of expanding the list of banks that lend to agricultural producers at a preferential rate by March 12, transferring investment loans from a commercial rate to a preferential rate and reducing the interest rate on preferential short-term and investment loans. By mid-March, proposals for providing soft loans to borrowers who have debts in taxes and fees will also be presented.
The instructions were given following a government meeting held on February 7, during which Medvedev noted that additional funds must be found to support the agro-industrial complex this year. “A decision was made and an instruction was given to find resources, find sources, opportunities to support the agro-industrial complex, especially investment projects,” said Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev following the meeting. He noted that in 2017, banks issued 650 billion rubles for agriculture. loans, which is almost three times more than in 2016, and it is important to maintain these volumes.
Now in the federal budget to support the agro-industrial complex in 2018, 242 billion rubles are provided, including 52 billion rubles. - to reimburse part of the interest rate on investment loans, almost 50 billion rubles. —To support preferential lending to agribusiness organizations, RUB 39 billion. - for a single subsidy, 11,3 billion rubles. - to provide unrelated support in the field of crop production and 8 billion rubles. - to increase productivity in dairy farming. Including over 13 billion rubles were allocated for preferential circulating loans. subsidies, which, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, will allow agrarians to attract 230 billion rubles. credit funds and 70% will cover the need for borrowed funds for the sowing campaign. On February 9, the agrarian department announced the approval of this year's first list of applicants for preferential short-term loans with a total amount of subsidies of 8,8 billion rubles. The leaders of the list are the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, which are allocated 791 million rubles. and 720 million rubles. Tatarstan accounted for 536 million rubles, Krasnodar Territory will receive 512 million rubles, Rostov Region - 380 million rubles, Stavropol Territory - 365 million rubles.
Source: http://www.agroinvestor.ru