This is stated on the website of the department.
“During a working trip to the Sverdlovsk Region, Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev held an off-site meeting of the Operational Headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, the participants of which discussed the current dynamics of seasonal field work in the country.
According to the minister, spring sowing in the Russian Federation has been carried out on an area of almost 53.5 million hectares, which is almost 100% of the plan,” the statement says.
According to the minister, the sowing campaign is still going on in certain regions of Siberia and the Far East.
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture urged the regions not to slow down and follow the approved plans for the structure of sown areas in areas where sowing has not yet been completed.
At the same time, it is noted that grain harvesting has already started in 10 subjects.
At the moment, Russian farmers have already threshed 1.3 million tons of grain.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian government will allocate more than 900 million rubles for the introduction of modern technologies in agriculture.
Economist Mikhail Belyaev, in an interview with the Economics Today, commented on the development of the Russian agro-industrial complex.