Reference
The state programme has been drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation pursuant to Article 8 of the federal law On the Development of Agriculture.
The strategic aims of the state programme are to:
- ensure Russia’s food security within the parameters of the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation;
- make Russian agricultural products more competitive on domestic and foreign markets within the framework of Russia’s WTO membership;
- improve the financial stability of agricultural commodity producers;
- promote the sustained development of rural areas;
- regenerate and use land and other agricultural resources more efficiently, make production environment-friendly.
To achieve these goals, the state programme addresses the following tasks within the framework of federal targeted programmes, sub-programmes and key measures:
- incentivise production of the main types of agricultural products and food products;
- implementing anti-epizootic measures with regard to quarantinable and especially dangerous animal diseases;
- supporting the development of infrastructure of the agricultural and food market;
- making agricultural, commodity and food market regulation more effective;
- supporting small businesses;
- ensuring the effectiveness of state authorities’ activities in the sphere of agricultural development and regulation of agricultural product, commodity and food markets;
- increasing cost-effectiveness in agriculture to ensure its sustained development;
- improving life in rural areas;
- encouraging innovation in the agricultural industry;
- promoting biotechnology;
- creating conditions for the efficient use of agricultural land;
- promoting the amelioration of agricultural land;
- regulating by economic means the use of land, water and other renewable natural resources in agricultural production, increasing soil fertility to the optimal level in each specific zone.
The state programme consists of six sub-programmes and four federal targeted programmes:
- the sub-programmes: Developing Crop Farming and the Processing and Sale of Crop Farming Products; Developing Animal Husbandry and the Processing and Sale of Animal Husbandry Products; Developing Beef Cattle Breeding; Supporting Small Businesses; Technical and Technological Modernisation, Innovative Development; Ensuring the Implementation of the State Programme;
- the federal targeted programmes: Social Development of Rural Areas to 2013; Sustained Development of Rural Areas in 2014-2017 and to 2020 (draft); Preservation and Restoration of Agricultural Soil Fertility and Agricultural Landscapes as the National Asset of Russia in 2006-2010 and to 2013; Developing Agricultural Land Amelioration in Russia in 2014-2020 (draft).
Total federal funding for the state programme is 1.5097 trillion roubles (in current prices), including 158.9 billion roubles in 2013, 162 billion roubles in 2014, and 175.4 billion roubles in 2015.
The sub-programmes to develop crop farming and animal husbandry are based on a scheme that includes not only agricultural production but also processing of agricultural products, infrastructure development and market regulation.
Implementation of the state programme and its sub-programmes and federal targeted programmes will be evaluated by the criteria established in the state programme, which include:
- index of agricultural production by farms of all categories (in comparable prices);
- index of crop farming production (in comparable prices);
- index of animal husbandry production (in comparable prices);
- index of food production, including beverages (in comparable prices);
- index of the actual amount of investment in the fixed agricultural assets;
- cost-effectiveness of agriculture;
- average monthly wages in the agricultural industry (at agricultural enterprises other than small businesses).
Implementation of the state programme will make it possible to achieve by 2020 the main indicators outlined by the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation.