The agenda: on fulfilling the state programme for the development of agriculture, incentivising investment into the real economy, budgetary funding for overhauling housing in flood-stricken regions.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Before we discuss the agenda of the Government meeting, I would like to say a few words about our trip to Yekaterinburg where we visited the largest International Industrial Exhibition/Fair INNOPROM.
The heads of government from all countries, members of the Eurasian Economic Union, specifically, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, took part in its work.
During bilateral meetings, we and our colleagues reviewed in details ircraft all the main cooperation issues, within the framework of guidelines and objectives, set by the heads of our states. First of all, we discussed issues linked with industrial cooperation.
I am confident that our talks will lead to additional agreements that will help expand cooperation in the field of industry, the machine-building sector and cutting-edge technologies. And, of course, they will strengthen our trade and economic collaboration and cooperation in the Eurasian region.
Our colleagues and we viewed various stands, analysed the most interesting ideas and advanced R&D projects which forge the future image of various sectors and help guarantee our industrial and technological sovereignty.
I would like to note once again that we are interested in implementing joint projects with all the concerned friendly states, including in such key sectors as the aircraft engineering, the automotive industry, pharmaceutics, microelectronics, machine-building, metallurgy and many others.
It is necessary to pool our efforts for strengthening national economies and thus boosting standards of living.
Let us now discuss the agenda. Today, we will examine the national report on fulfilling the state programme to support agriculture last year. The results of its implementation show that the agro-industrial sector continues to develop confidently, as confirmed by impressive production volumes of grain and vegetable oil, meat and fish, sugar and potatoes which exceed projected targets. We harvested record-breaking amounts of grain and leguminous crops, fruits and berries and oil-bearing plants. This is also important for ensuring the country’s food security.
The President noted that genuine sovereignty means effectiveness; it is necessary to work as actively as possible in all sectors and to obtain maximum possible results. Our agricultural producers utilise precisely these approaches.
Last year, we launched four federal projects in order to make the agro-industrial sector more resilient. All of them are needed to increase this economic sector’s technological level. Consequently, we manufactured more veterinary vaccines, ferments, food and fodder additives. Forty-four new sorts of agricultural plants and their hybrids were included in the state register. We consistently increase the share of seeds of Russian selection.
More to be posted soon.
