Alexander Tkachev
The Minister of agriculture of Russia Alexander Tkachev has urged to adequately assess the ability of the budget in the current economic climate. The corresponding statement he made at the enlarged visiting session of the Duma faction “United Russia” on Tuesday, March 14, the correspondent “Tapes.ru”.
Deputies of the state Duma Joseph Kobzon Natalia Boeva turned to Tkachev question of why the development of rural culture and social spending are not enough funds available.
The Minister in response said that “street crisis” and budget funds are limited, and their distribution is conducted in accordance with the priorities. “If you have pocket 10 thousand rubles, you can’t go to his wife to buy a fur coat or a car? It’s the same with us,” he said.
If you increase the financing of the program of development of rural territories, you lose money investors, which the government promised to support, said the head of the Ministry of agriculture. “The house of culture in the open field is useless. People need roads, prosperity, warmth, school,” — said Tkachev, noting that this phrase, he has “a list of the 100 billion uttered”.
Earlier Tuesday, the Minister asked agriculture additional 36 billion rubles in 2017. Therefore, the amount of support the sector needs to be increased to 250 billion rubles. According to the Minister, the additional funds will enable us to successfully carry out the harvesting campaign, to increase the number of implemented investment projects, but also to accelerate the re-equipment of agriculture of modern agricultural machinery.