he Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachyov announceth the list of Russian agricultural and fishery sectors’ policy priorities until 2020:
- ensure food security and import substitution;
- efficient financing;
- support to farmers;
- technical renovation;
- support for agricultural science and education;
- bring order into agricultural lands ownership and turnover;
- improve quality of life in rural areas;
- establish fair prices for food and improve food quality;
- export promotion; and
- development of coastal fish processing, infrastructure and storage facilities.
The proposed actions include:
- Simplification of the subsidies: to reduce number of subsidies from 70 to 40 (!)
- Interest rate subsidy will be financed on the federal level (now it is financed from the local budgets);
- Regulation of the retail mark-up for foodю
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