In 2021, the area of irrigated land in the region will grow by 7,5 thousand hectares. According to the data of the Volgograd Region Agriculture Committee, 4,5 thousand hectares of new irrigated fields in 11 districts of the region have already been commissioned, work is still ongoing at 6 sites.
Irrigated areas are created with state support under the federal program “Development of the Land Reclamation Complex in Russia” and the national project “International Cooperation and Export”. For example, in 2021, in the Nikolaevsky district, LLC "Leader" built an object on an area of 533,5 hectares; the livestock farm of LLC SP Donskoye of the Kalachevsky District increased the land reclamation area by 783 hectares; in the Ilovlinsky region, the JSC "Berdievsky elevator Agro" put into operation 278 hectares of irrigated land. In the Svetloyarsk district, LLC SP Oroshaevoe handed over 614,4 hectares of reclamation systems, in the same municipality, LLC VolgoDonAgro built another 335,9 hectares. In the Kalachevsky district, NPG Sady Pridonya LLC at the fifth stage of construction increased the irrigated area by more than 206 hectares. The new irrigated areas will increase the production of corn, soybeans, fruits, open field vegetables and other crops.
Recall that over the past seven years, the irrigated area in the Volgograd region has doubled, amounting to 2020 thousand hectares by the end of 67,1.
In 2021, more than 611 million rubles were allocated from the budgets of all levels to support agricultural producers implementing projects in the field of land reclamation, including almost 134 million rubles for the construction of irrigation facilities within the framework of the international cooperation and export national project.