Agenda: The implementation plan for the national Spatial Development Strategy through 2030, regulations on the provision of maternity capital, and initiatives to advance scientific research in breeding and genetics.
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Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Mikhail Mishustin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
The President has stressed the need for regions to achieve greater economic self-sufficiency, highlighting the importance of ensuring equal opportunities for citizens’ self-realisation and high living standards across the country. This is the core aim of the updated Spatial Development Strategy, designed for the period up to 2030 with projections extending to 2036. The strategy was adopted at the end of last year.
A plan has been approved to ensure the timely implementation of all the initiatives outlined in the strategy. Aimed at achieving national goals, it details around fifty measures, including priorities for spatial development, improving infrastructure efficiency, and enhancing approaches to territorial and regional planning and developing. . Particular attention is given to geostrategically important areas – the Far East, the Arctic, the North Caucasus, Crimea, and the Kaliningrad Region – as well as key strongholds. All of these priorities are central to the strategy’s focus.
Colleagues, I urge you, in coordination with the relevant ministries, to closely monitor the quality of this plan’s implementation. Special attention should be given to meeting the established deadlines, ensuring that the work proceeds efficiently and in a well-coordinated manner. This will help achieve balanced economic growth across the regions and improve the quality of life in both cities and rural areas.
Now, regarding support for parents with children: as the head of state has repeatedly emphasised, the interests and well-being of families are central to our national development agenda. Special attention is given to large families.
Among the many measures in place, one of the most effective and widely used is maternity capital, whose amount is indexed annually. At present, it stands at roughly 690,000 roubles for a first child and over 900,000 roubles for a second and subsequent children. This programme continues to evolve, with its benefits and opportunities for citizens regularly expanded.
In line with the President’s instructions, we have introduced a number of changes to the rules governing the provision of maternity capital, making it possible to receive these funds more quickly and conveniently. The period for reviewing applications for their use will be halved, from 10 to 5 business days.
Requests for additional documents related to an application will also be processed more quickly, from 20 days to 12.
It is essential that parents devote more time to their children, not to paperwork. We will continue to expand measures to support families, creating the necessary conditions for their wellbeing.
Another important topic is the additional decision to ensure our country’s food security.
As the President has emphasised, achieving key objectives in this area requires enhancing the technological capabilities of our agro-industrial complex.
One of the most important areas is advancing research in breeding and genetics. This work is being carried out within the framework of the national project on ensuring technological leadership.
To further strengthen these efforts, the Government will co-finance part of the costs incurred by breeding farms for genetic value studies and animal disease research. The subsidies to the regions will amount to up to 70 percent of the total expenditure.
Mr Patrushev, please tell us more about what is planned in this sphere. You have the floor.
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Dmitry Patrushev: Mr Mishustin, colleagues,
Over the past years, a large breeding base for 13 types of farm animals has been created in Russia.
We have achieved self-sufficiency in genetic material for pig breeding, as well as for beef and dairy cattle.
Since 2023, poultry breeding has been actively developed, including the creation of the Smena Breeding and Genetic Centre, established with the support of the Government.
At the same time, we need to improve the quality characteristics of breeding livestock. This task is part of the national project Technological Support for Food Security.
For the first time at the federal level, special support measures have been proposed to encourage scientific research and the introduction of innovation methods.
This primarily relates to the genomic selection that makes it possible to identify and secure valuable productive traits in farm animals much faster, significantly accelerating breeding processes.
To advance genomic selection, the national project includes a dedicated tool: reimbursement of up to 70 percent of the costs for molecular genetic studies of cattle. Such research will boost the rate of productivity growth in livestock and, as a result, increase overall production in the animal husbandry sector.
In the long term, a domestic system for genomic evaluation will be established, enabling more effective work to improve the productive qualities of animals.This year alone, almost half a billion roubles from the federal budget have been earmarked for this purpose. . Any breeding farm in Russia applying genomic selection methods will be eligible for support.
The measure will also be available to companies participating in the relevant track of the Federal Scientific and Technical Programme for the Development of Agriculture.
We expect that about 400 applicants will receive funding in 2025, with the allocation planned to increase in subsequent years.
Mikhail Mishustin: It is important to do everything necessary to support farms and further develop livestock breeding. This is one of the key areas for strengthening our country’s food security. And please, keep these issues under your personal control, Mr Patrushev, as you have been doing.
