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Agriculture Minister: In 5 years, Russia will be fully secured by its own food

Agriculture Minister Elena Skrynnik sure that in the next 4-5 years, Russia will be fully secured by the main types of food products of domestic manufacture. about this, she said in an interview published today in the newspaper > “Vedomosti”.

“In the next 4-5 years, and is provided in Doctrine of food security, we expect to achieve full self-sufficiency meat, milk, sugar – the main types of food” , – she said. “Grains and potatoes we already perform this task”, – added the Minister. “Government and the Ministry adopted a set of measures to help reduce the volume of food imports, – noted Skrynnik. – As a result, in 2009, imports of meat decreased by 30%. ” “With regard to milk, then we provided them by 83% at a threshold value established by the doctrine, 90%,” – she said. “develop their own production of beet sugar”, – added the head of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Speaking on state support APC Skrynnik recalled that this year under the state program is planned to allocate 107.6 billion rubles. “74% (79.3 billion rubles) of those funds will be used to subsidize interest rates on loans, 16.4 billion rubles – for our two federal programs, Social Development of Rural Areas” and “Preservation and restoration of soil fertility” , – she said.