Crimean winemakers will have to switch to local vines and raw materials
Moscow - Simferopol, January 27 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Due to EU sanctions, it has become difficult to purchase wine materials and seedlings in Europe, so Crimean winemakers will have to switch to local vines and raw materials. And this is good: Crimean wine will finally become fully Crimean. But to do this, by 2020 it will be necessary to increase the area of vineyards to 6,2 thousand hectares, and a third of the current ones, occupying 31 thousand hectares, need to be changed.
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“There are three farms in Crimea that have their own nurseries for growing seedlings - they need to be developed,” said "KP" Head of the department of selection, genetics of grapes and ampelography at the Institute of Grapes and Wine "Magarach" Vladimir Likhovskoy. – Negotiations have begun with the Serbs so that they initially supply us with their “cuttings.” In order to completely switch to import substitution for planting material, Crimea must produce 5,5 million seedlings per year. This alone will require 374 hectares of land, and the program to revive this segment of production will cost the treasury 3,8 billion rubles.”
Even larger areas will need to be equipped for planting the vine itself - put up poles and stretch trellises. “To provide Crimean factories with their own raw materials, we need 1,2 thousand hectares of actively fruit-bearing vineyards and 5 thousand young plantings to renew the area,” explained Likhovskoy. – Under the USSR, when the peninsula provided the entire country with its wine, we had 90 thousand hectares occupied by fruit-bearing grapes. If we work actively, in 40 years we will be able to catch up.”
According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Crimea, this year more than 33,5 million rubles will be allocated from the federal budget to reimburse part of the costs of planting and caring for vineyards.
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