Suburban farmers have collected a record grain harvest, exceeding the plan by 425 thousand tons, according to the website of the regional government on Wednesday, 4 Oct.
“Farmers of the Moscow region, despite all the difficulties and vicissitudes of this year, achieve record levels. This year we have harvested the grain for millennia,” said Minister of agriculture and food of the region Andrey Razin on agro-industrial exhibition “Golden autumn”.
Earlier Wednesday, Minister of investment and innovation region Denis Butsaev, who was also present at the exhibition, said that
investment in agriculture in 2017 may reach 30 billion rubles. He noted that every year the size of financial investments in this sector increased by 20 percent.
Stand with the achievements of the suburban farmers visited by Vice Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. As a result, he gave a high assessment to the development of agriculture in the region.
September 22, Razin said that the average yield in the region amounted to 33 tons per hectare. According to him, among the districts in terms of gross collection, the undisputed leader of the zaraysky district of the city.
XIX Russian agricultural exhibition “Golden autumn” will take place at the exhibition center until October 7. For many years she has been the main agricultural forum of the country.