According to the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, the department is generally satisfied with the amount of funds allocated to support the agricultural sector, but expects an increase.
The draft budget of Russia for 2025 has been prepared and is being submitted to the State Duma for consideration. It allocates 500 billion rubles for state support of agriculture.
As noted by the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Oksana Lut, the department understands the difficulties of today and the large budget costs, so the fact that farmers have been allocated half a billion cannot but please.
At the same time, according to the minister, she expects that the deputies will meet farmers halfway during the consideration of the budget and allocate them additional funds so that the total amount of state support for farmers next year will be the same as this year, that is, at the level of 560 billion rubles.
Also, as Lut noted, the most important measure to support farmers can certainly be considered the refusal to switch from a single agricultural tax to a profit tax, which for Russian companies is also being increased from 20% to 25%.
In addition, the program to support beginning farmers and cooperatives should be preserved.
It was necessary to fight for its preservation, including with the involvement of the «People’s Farmer» association. As a result, the Ministry of Agriculture included support for beginning farmers in the draft budget for the next 3 years.
Finally, the Ministry plans to maintain the program of state support for the dairy industry in the foreseeable future.
This is of fundamental importance, because this industry in the country is still insufficiently developed, and Russia has not switched to self-sufficiency in this type of product.
It is planned that support will be maintained until self-sufficiency is achieved.
At the same time, a number of farmers, despite everything, believe that they do not have enough state support for the industry.
In particular, the problem is the increase in taxes and export duties, which prevent products from being sold abroad at a high profit.
Therefore, over time, the situation for many Russian producers is only getting worse.
However, there are also companies that value state support. For example, many companies receive annual subsidies for crop production and use preferential loans, both to replenish their working capital and for investment.
In general, farmers expect that state support measures will remain, since for some they are an opportunity to maintain their profitability.
