Sevastopol will be turned into a wine Mecca for wine tourists
Sevastopol winemakers are asking for permission to build wineries with tourist infrastructure in the vineyards.
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation opposes changes to the law prohibiting the use of agricultural land for other needs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
At a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management, Vice-Governor of Sevastopol Maria Litovko recalled that in December last year the government of the Russian Federation and the southern regions received instructions from the president to develop a package of measures for the development of wine tourism and increasing the share of Russian wine products on domestic shelves shops.
The Terroir Sevastopol project involves 33 producers with a total vineyard area of 6 thousand hectares. Of these, they are asking to give 40 hectares for development.
“These are wineries and infrastructure for tourists, which should not be 10 km from the facility, but on the spot,” Litovko emphasized. “2 billion investments have already been made with the prospect of increasing to 10 billion, but the region may lose them because there will be no development.”
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation opposes the construction permit, fearing the loss of vineyard land in recreational areas and the onslaught of the development lobby. However, representatives of the Krasnodar Territory, where winemakers also cannot process the harvest directly in the vineyards and make a tourist product out of it, have already developed a draft law that introduces the concept of enotourism and the placement of primary and secondary processing.
All over the world, wineries are located in vineyards, as is the infrastructure for receiving tourists. The appetites of developers can be limited by limiting the area of objects. The approval of changes to the legislation is expected this year.
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