(AGENPARL) – KREMLIN gio 18 maggio 2023

The meeting was attended by Minister
of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev and, via videoconference, by Presidential Aide
Maxim Oreshkin, Head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary
Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor) Sergei Dankvert, Governor of the Altai Territory
and Chair of the State Council Commission on Agriculture Viktor Tomenko, governors
of the Krasnodar Territory, Stavropol Territory, Amur, Voronezh, Rostov and Saratov regions, Rosagroleasing General Director Pavel Kosov and Chairman of the Board of the Russian Agricultural Bank Boris Listov.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, good afternoon.

The Minister of Agriculture and I agreed to hold today’s meeting in an expanded format since the spring sowing
campaign is a very important time of the year for our agricultural sector. It
lays the foundation for the future harvests and will determine whether our
agricultural sector is sustainable and can reliably ensure our food security
and satisfy consumer demand.

Today, we will review the situation
at the national level and in specific regions, and we will have a detailed
discussion on additional support measures our agricultural producers need,
including in Russia’s new regions – Donbass and Novorossiya.

Only recently, my colleagues and I discussed the importance of increasing the availability of food and other
essential goods in these regions. Of course, in addition to improving logistics
and expanding the sales infrastructure, this must support local producers,
including by developing infrastructure for processing and storing finished
goods and ensuring stable sales. Of course, we must help agricultural producers
and farmers in these regions to get through the sowing campaign, despite all
the current challenges, by assisting them in every possible way in delivering
on this essential task.

To be continued.

Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/71155