
Fedorov: Russia practically ceases to depend on the import of meat to the end of the year
Still an issue with quality of machinery compared to western models. Well, fine for a basic tractor that will run and run for years, but not so for more specialised machinery. Relatives who farm in Krasnodar use Claas even tho the import tarifs are not good. But Claas work out okay as they are more reliable than Rostselmash which are made Rostov only about 200km away.KomissarBojanchev wrote:As far as I know russia is one of the world leaders in agrucltural machinery design and innovation. What is the current status of russian agricultural technology exports. Expanding this area will be crucial in diversifying the economy. Also with it's current extreme technological expertise it shouldn't be hard for russia to create a competitor to the much hated monsanto by giving more favorable buyer terms for it's products and safer genetic modifications instead of for the sake of global profit and expl,oitation the way monsanto does.
sepheronx wrote:Rostselmash isnt the only tractor and agriculture making company in Russia. as well, they seem to be doing well enough that they own our (Canada) bigger agriculyure machine building company and even make their products here and US as well.
They own the tractor company from my home city.
Rosselmash is making a major effort to reorganize and coordinate all the various research institutes and industrial plants in order to make the production of agricultural equipment in Russia more streamlined and competitive, and with an eye to full import substitution, to take advantage of the ruble devaluation.
The blogger, who also happens to the the leader of Russia's Business Party, Konstantin Babkin, speaks highly of the Ministry of Industry, but faults the Russian Central Bank as pursuing a "tight money" policy which makes credits more difficult to obtain. Nevertheless, Rosselmash has already had some major export successes in recent months.
Russia's Food Import Ban Is Here to Stay
Russia’s deputy prime minister has confirmed what Russia Insider said a week ago: the food import ban will not be lifted. This is because it is not really a sanction. It is a tool to help Russian farming.........(continued)
Cyberspec wrote:Peanut wars![]()
Russia to ban import of peanuts from US to Russia starting May 1
http://tass.ru/en/economy/792585
Russian agricultural watchdog suggests substituting Indian supplies for peanuts from US
http://tass.ru/en/economy/792629
Russia cancels wheat export customs duty — government’s official Twitter
MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. The Russian Government has canceled the wheat export customs duty, the cabinet of ministers said on Friday in its official Twitter.
"The decision was made to abolish the export customs duty for wheat," the statement said.
The Russian government imposed the wheat export duty from February 1, 2015 in order to stabilize bread and flour prices on the Russia’s domestic market in conditions of high grain export rates due to ruble devaluation. The duty equals 15% of the customs value plus 7.5 euro but at least 35 euro a tonne.
The Russian Ministry of Agriculture suggested reducing wheat export duties to zero from May 15 on May 5, with a change in its formula. The new procedure of the export duty calculation stipulates that the export fee will total 1 euro against the aforesaid domestic price level, the ministry reported. The duty will vary depending on the contracted supply price.
"It is critical for us that the grain price is profit-making for farmers. Restrictions will certainly be in place for the case of economic contingencies but they are formal by nature," Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said earlier.
Russian daily Vedemonsti reports that Agricultural Ministry is working on a policy proposal under which agricultural investors would be leased given currently unused farmland free of charge.
The Ministry further proposes compensation to investors for any development of the state-owned land. Addition, if the investors prove to have successfully developed the land within the five year period, they could become the new owners of the land or the state may continue to lease the land free of charge.
Without state support businesses are reluctant to invest in Russian agriculture, but the Ministry hopes to change that with these attractive proposals.
According to the 2014 figures from the Ministry of Agriculture Russia has 386,5 million hectares of agricultural land, including 196,1 million hectares of farmland. 56 million hectares, or 28.6% of all farmland is not in use for its intended purpose. Almost half of that - 21.6 million hectares- are located in Siberia.
Earlier this year a bill was passed in the Duma to distribute plots of land of up to 100 acres to Russian citizens in the Far East. This land cannot be sold and is only to be used for agriculture.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev yesterday signed a decree authorizing an increase in the amount of subsidies to be granted to agricultural production to 21.342 billion rubles, the Ministry of Agriculture has said.
“The subsidies are available for the co-financing of constituent entities’ expenditure obligations, relating to the reimbursement of the interest rate on short-term loans (loans),” a spokesperson for the ministry told RIA Novosti. “According to the decree, the amount of subsidies in this area has been increased by 2.5 billion rubles.”
Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev said that the joint task of ministries and regional authorities is to support and provide assistance to farmers to ensure the growth of agricultural production.
“It will take another 5-7 years for Russia to reach its maximum level of crop production,” the Ministry added. “Therefore, we need to ensure that financing is made available to the agricultural sector in its entirety, and this must be done as soon as possible”.
This spring in Dagestan produced the creation of new gardens on an area of over 1 036 hectares, have informed RIA "Dagestan" in the Ministry of RD. Of these, intensive gardens laid over an area of 131 hectares.
Currently in the Republic only about 26 thousand hectares of grounds with fruit — about 21 thousand hectares. Given the importance of the extension of the area under fruits in the Republic started a great job of resuscitating the industry. So, last year the gardeners of the Republic gathered about 121 thousand tons of fruits. And planting new gardens was held on the square 1 168 thousand hectares, including ordinary gardens — more than 1 122 thousand hectares, more than 45 hectares of intensive type. Overall, from 2011 to 2014 in the Republic was laid young orchards on the area of 5 thousand hectares. However, only this year is it proposed to lay 1600 hectares of new orchards.
According to experts, over time this should lead to the growth of their own fruit production and the development of the canned products.
It is worth mentioning that the orchards is within the declared Head of Dagestan 2015 the Year of gardening. This suggests that this branch of agriculture is a priority. In the 1960-ies in Dagestan there were about 60 thousand fruit bearing gardens, but in the 90 years, the industry went into decline.
Orchards with a total area of 130 hectares laid in the village novodmitrievskaya. The first harvest with Apple orchards with an area of 105 hectares of LLC "foothills Gardens" filmed last year. This year it is expected that the yield will reach 120-130 thousand tons of apples. Plum gardens, built on an area of 22 hectares, will begin to bear fruit after two years. Also as part of the project built administrative building and sheds.
To implement the project attracted investments in the amount of 170 million rubles. In the future, the company intends to build on these areas of the fruit storage facility.
Already created 13 new jobs. During harvest, the number will be increased, depending on required labor resources to collect ripe fruits.
The agreement to implement the project on planting of gardens of intensive type concluded at the International investment forum "Sochi-2014".
Today vegetables and melons employs more than 13 thousand hectares.
As the press service of the government, horticulture traditionally actively developed in the Volga, and in Gorodishche, Ilovlya, Svetlojarskom and Kotelnikovsky areas.
Compared with last year, nearly five times larger area given over to a pumpkin. Instead of 419 hectares planted 2 057 hectares. It turns out the demand for this crop in the domestic market is extremely high.
In the region most onions grown — it takes 4 980 hectares, which is 624 hectares more than in 2014. On 721 hectares increased sowings of carrots — they are 3 054 hectares. The bronze of potatoes, planted in two times more than last year — more than 2 thousand hectares. Don't forget about the farmers and cucumbers, beets and tomatoes, but their performance is more modest.
Special attention in the region is traditionally paid to melon crops — melons and watermelons were planted on the area of 3 thousand hectares. Thus for growing Bykov's famous watermelons used local seeds.
Residents and guests of the Volgograd region can already buy in the markets and in shops the new crop vegetables grown in the open ground — radish, cabbage, onion. To date, they sold 16 625 tons.
"Agroholding Ivnya" APH "Miratorg", in the context of improving the efficiency of crop division invests in the development of precision farming an additional 10 million rubles.
The company implements a long-term strategy aimed at increasing cereal production within vertically integrated business model to provide high-quality, organic feed for livestock divisions.
The total area of cultivated land in the Belgorod and Kursk regions exceeds 130 thousand hectares, the agricultural holding on which grows wheat, barley, triticale, soybeans and corn. The main consumer of grain feed mills are Miratorg, which produce food for 27 pig farms company with a capacity of 3 million market hogs per year.
The exact seeding system is an integrated equipment installed on multi-row trailed planter. It can significantly improve the performance measures through the implementation of process control seeding in real time.
The main advantage of this equipment is a digital system for control and accounting of all processes occurring at sowing, which produces the collection, processing and storage of data, and also displays information on the display in a readable form, while allowing to make necessary adjustments to the process. Thanks to the built-in system to connect to satellite maps of the fields and GPS modules available on agricultural machinery becomes available visualization of work performed by seeding in real time.
"Increasing efficiency and productivity is a major challenge for the agricultural holding. Over the past three years the yield of early grain crops has grown on average by 27% from 1 ha annually. This is a good result, but we are confident that it can be improved. Precision agriculture has a strong potential for significant improvement in the main indicators of the sowing accuracy and uniformity of seeding and seeding depth," said head of Department of precision agriculture Eugene Grisin.
"Crisis in Russia? Yes, it's real… But at the same time it is the best time to launch new projects!" — Cedric Etlicher, a French banker, commented on the situation, as cited by Les Echos.
The Russian embargo, introduced as a retaliation measure against food imports from Europe by the Kremlin, prompted a number of French companies to seek new economic ties in Russia.
"Those who miss opportunities now will find it hard to regain their market shares after the crisis ends," said the banker, as quoted by the French newspaper.
Folks working in the Russian agricultural sector are rubbing their hands anticipating a boom in the industry. The introduction of Western sanctions prompted the Russian government to invest in its own agricultural industry.
"With the embargo and the government support, the crisis has become a catalyst for investment," said Pyotr Ilyukhin, the director of food company Prodo, as quoted by Les Echos.
At the same time, Western companies are in competition with Chinese businesses which are quick to fill available spots in the Russian food industry. This is why Western companies are trying to do everything not to lose their already-established relations with Russia, the French newspaper reported.
ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — A Russian embargo on food imports from a number of Western countries may improve local agricultural output, the president of UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) told Sputnik on Friday.
"Every political incident has its downside and its good side…. But the current situation also gives opportunities for small [Russian] producers to increase their productivity to be more effective and efficient and have access to the Russian markets, so there could be an advantage there," Kanayo Nwanze said.
He added that Russian agricultural producers need to invest in IT technologies that increase productivity to realize the country’s "huge agricultural potential."
The list of banned products includes meat, poultry, fish, seafood, milk, dairy products and fruit and vegetables.
On Thursday, the head of Russia’s agriculture Rosselkhoznadzor watchdog agency, Sergei Dankvert, said that Russian agricultural producers had called on authorities to expand the list of banned import foodstuffs if economic sanctions against Russia were extended.
Nwanze also said that Russia’s active ongoing contribution to the IFAD is vital for the UN agency.
"I must say to you I’m very exited about Russia joining IFAD. Russia became a member of IFAD only in 2014 but Russia increased its financial contribution to IFAD by 50%, it went from 6 to 9 million dollars," Nwanze said.
According to the agency president, Russia's contribution is especially important since IFAD actively works with Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.
"In 10 of these countries, we have financed 40 projects for a total of 500 million dollars," Nwanze added.
IFAD promotes financial services and financial inclusion for rural areas globally by linking farmers to markets, strengthening small and medium-sized enterprises, improving livestock productivity, and urging government agricultural departments to invest in rural infrastructure.
The economic forum in St. Petersburg, taking place June 18-20, is held under the auspices of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia is, contrary to popular knowledge, a major wine producing country. In 2007 it was reported to have produced around 7.3 million hl - just behind Chile and Portugal. If Russians were to be more limited to the domestic market, European wine producers would lose out to what is by far the largest market in Europe.
GarryB wrote:Hey.... why ban NZ wine?
NZ is not part of the EU or NATO and AFAIK has not imposed any sanctions on Russia...
I don't drink much in the way of alcohol... wine just tastes like rotten fruit to my uncivilised palate, but I do know we sell quite a bit around the place... central otago has a near perfect climate for growing the stuff apparently and some of the stuff from Marlborough is supposed to be pretty good too.
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150725/1025028342.htmlFinland’s Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) says the country’s government needs to help milk producers survive through the current crisis, caused by the Russian ban on imports from countries that have targeted Russia with sanctions.
PapaDragon wrote:
Interesting news:
Finnish Farmers Ask Government for Money Amid Russian Food Embargo
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150725/1025028342.htmlFinland’s Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) says the country’s government needs to help milk producers survive through the current crisis, caused by the Russian ban on imports from countries that have targeted Russia with sanctions.
But here is the kicker: not only did the EU seem to lose very large market but have also jump-started creation of massive competition for their (already heavily subsidized) agricultural sector, which will start to flood EU market with, in this case, milk within several years.
These are the articles I ran into about new dairy production farms opened in Russia in last 72 hours alone:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/65591/
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/65583/
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/65577/
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/65576/
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/65537/
Someone did not think their foreign policy trough it seems...
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