“The rate of acquisition of agricultural machinery this year has somewhat decreased, but at the same time it has not become critical, has not fallen many times, but has decreased by interest.
The situation is being rectified quite effectively, and today there are no serious problems for the acquisition, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
According to the data provided by Nekrasov, as of July 1 of this year, there were 429,806 tractors, 124,458 combine harvesters and 15,375 forage harvesters in the agricultural machinery fleet.
Nekrasov also drew attention to the good condition and renewal of the park.
“Despite the limitations and difficulties, the equipment is getting younger, in general, more than 50% of grain and forage harvesters are under ten years old,” he stressed.
As for tractor equipment, it also became younger - by 0.8%.
According to Nekrasov, concessional lending was the main measure to support Russian farmers.
Earlier, President of the Russian Grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky gave a forecast on the situation with grain in Russia this year.