The system will be put into operation in stages.
After the end of the voluntary registration stage, from September 1, 2022, the stage of mandatory submission of information on grain lots for issuance of SDIZ (trade-accompanying document for a batch of grain or products of its processing) will begin.
From January 1, 2023, voluntary provision of information on grain processing products will begin, which will become mandatory from March 1, 2023.
Thus, it will become possible to automate the collection and analysis of information on the production of grain and products of its processing.
It is assumed that the introduction of this system, to which all market participants will be required to transfer data (producers and processors of grain, organizations that store it, traders, end consumers of grain and products of its processing), will allow controlling the quality and safety of products, as well as combating illegal flow of grain.
The law on the introduction of the FSIS «Grain» was adopted back in 2021, but its start was postponed at the request of agricultural producers and industry associations.
Since the beginning of testing the system, the feedback from the farmers themselves has been mixed.
And, if large agricultural holdings react to the introduction of the new system rather restrainedly, then a large number of complaints come from farmers.
A lot of information and data needs to be sent via the Internet, and farmers work in the field and do not have time to fill out tables and undergo training.
Their main task is to grow and harvest crops.
It is the farmers who bear the additional financial burden: as a rule, they need to hire a separate person who will enter the data and provide him with the necessary electronic resources.
An additional question: what about those farmers who work in areas where there is no access to the Internet?
How to weigh the crop if the farmer’s field has such resources?
If a farmer has one warehouse, how to comply with the system requirement not to store products from different areas in the same warehouse?
There are many questions, which is why Vladimir Plotnikov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues, sent an appeal from the farming community to Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, with a request to postpone the mandatory registration in the FSIS «Grain» for farms to the beginning of 2023.
This will allow small agricultural producers to master the system and learn how to work in it.
