Crimea will have to spend budget money due to Kherson dumping
The Crimean authorities will have to compensate from the budget the losses of agricultural producers due to dumping at the Kherson farmers’ market. The losses of Crimean farmers are so great that there is no working capital for sowing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, he has already secured the support of the federal center to provide assistance to Crimean agricultural producers. First of all, we are talking about grains and vegetables, the price of which was low this year due to the admission of Kherson farmers to the market.
“Today I spoke with Dmitry Nikolaevich Patrushev (Minister of Agriculture), our colleagues promised us support,” Aksenov noted. – We will find a recipe for the export of grain from Crimean producers by the end of the week. The same goes for vegetable growing. The situation has changed, new constituent entities of the Russian Federation have emerged that specialized in growing vegetables and pose serious competition to our producers.
By 2023, the situation needs to be stabilized. Unfortunately, this year many agricultural producers in Crimea sank, there is no working capital, so they now need help. To the extent that if we don’t find effective tools, then there should be preferential lending or subsidies.”
According to Aksenov, the decision on support will be made jointly with Sevastopol, where farmers also did not make a profit due to dumping of Kherson products. Next year, the head of Crimea promised farmers separate trading platforms along the Tavrida highway, at exits, road junctions or at the exit from any district or city.
Similar sites are already operating along Tavrida with far from Crimean producers and non-Crimean goods, but under the Crimean Fair brand.
After the liberation of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, agricultural products from these regions poured into the Crimean market. Farmers handed over their harvest at bargain prices in order to buy groceries, manufactured goods, and building materials in Crimea and return home. Every week, 400-500 tons of vegetables were brought to the markets, and even taking into account the resellers, the cost of cabbage, carrots, onions, and potatoes decreased by a third.
Against this background, suppliers from neighboring Kuban lost their positions. At the start of the resumption of supplies of vegetables from the Kherson region, resellers bought the entire cargo in bulk to keep prices down. But as volumes increased, this became impossible. Moreover, Kherson agricultural products left Crimean grain and vegetable producers without markets. It became unprofitable to sell corn, and farmers were left without funds for sowing.
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