Minister: Russia is approaching complete food security
In terms of indicators such as grain, sugar, vegetable oil, rice, cereals, pork, poultry, potatoes, Russian producers not only fully meet the needs of the population, but also actively supply their products to foreign markets.
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Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev announced this today in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The share of domestic milk in total consumption is already close to 82%. We expect that further work in this direction will allow us to reach the indicators of the food safety doctrine for milk in the next 3-5 years,” Tkachev said.
According to him, over 8 months of this year, the production of livestock and poultry for slaughter increased by 4%, and fish imports decreased by 10%. In the spring, 24% more new orchards were planted than last year, and one and a half times more vineyards. Now farmers have begun autumn planting.
“It is important to maintain the pace of planting so that in 5 years we can replace the import of apples, pears and grapes. Reducing VAT from 18 to 10% will help with this,” Tkachev said.
In Russia, the first 10 grain breeding centers are being built and the first 4 genetic centers are being built, which will allow reducing the supply of imported grain seeds by 2020 times, corn and sunflower by up to 2%, and potatoes by 25% by 40.
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