Tula farmers will receive support to increase the production of potatoes and vegetables. The total amount will be 268 rubles. Almost 551 million rubles will be allocated from the federal budget. The money will be allocated in the form of subsidies within the framework of the regional project "Development of industries and technical modernization of the agro-industrial complex," the portal reports. "Vesti Tula".
Payments will be received by agricultural producers (except for credit consumer cooperatives and those who maintain personal subsidiary plots).
The Tula government will reimburse them for expenses in the following areas:
- for agrotechnological work, increasing the level of environmental safety, fertility and soil quality;
- to support elite seed production;
- for the production of protected ground vegetables with additional illumination technology;
- to support the production of potatoes and open field vegetables.