News from the fields, or about the food security of Russia 2017
The situation connected with the sanctions pressure and the actual refusal of individual states to carry out fair competition raises the question of Russia's food security. It is about achieving food independence or, at least, reducing dependence on food products of foreign production to a minimum. This material will focus on the report of the Ministry of Agriculture in terms of the 2017 harvesting campaign and the dynamics of the food supply of the Russian market with domestic food products.
The question attracts special attention for a variety of reasons, and all of them are in one way or another connected with the very possibility of Russia to provide the population without thinking about what the "partners" think about this. The older and middle generation of citizens remember very well how overnight the goods disappeared from the store shelves, then after some time these shelves literally began to fill up with European and North American products, which attracted colorful labels and often surprises with internal content ... , according to numerous testimonies of people involved in the late Soviet food industry, warehouses in a number of regions were overloaded with domestic products, which kept eh from the exit for the implementation - at sunset USSR deficit created largely artificial.
The above report Ministry of Agriculture states that the harvest campaign of the 2017 of the year, if it does not lead to another record, can follow in its results to the impressive values of previous years - for 100 million tons of grain.
So, these departments on 11 August.
The total sown area for grain and leguminous plants in Russia in 2017 was about 47,8 million hectares. To be "more visible" - it is more than the territory, for example, Sweden or Uzbekistan. At the same time, it is 41% of the area of the sown area of the USSR of the 1986 model of the year. Although in this case it is incorrect to compare with the USSR for the simple reason that the territory of the USSR, which obviously was not limited to the territory of the RSFSR.
At the same time, Russian agrarians, as follows from the reports, annually increase the acreage, which once again confirms the fact that the agricultural sector is indeed on the rise today. And let the phrase have already managed to fill the edge of teeth, but it is quite possible to repeat once again: “thanks to the sanctions!”
On 10, August, in Russia as a whole, grain and leguminous plants were threshed from an area of about 14,4 million hectares (30,1% of the total sown area). At the same time, 59 million tons of grain was milled. For comparison: this is 13% less than on the same date last year. However, farmers state a significant increase in yield. If in 2016, the average yield by this time was 34,5 centners per hectare, then this year it is already 40,9 centners per hectare. Growth - 18,6%. Record yield, it would seem, as in previous years (due to at least climatic factors) should be demonstrated by agricultural farms in the Central (45,9 centners / ha) and Southern Federal Districts (42,3 centners / hectares). However, in the current year, the Northwest District shows truly record levels. If in the NWFD in 2016, the yield of grain and leguminous plants was less than 30 centners per hectare, in 2017 the figure is impressive - almost 48 centners per hectare. In fairness, in the Northwestern Federal District grain and cleaned only with 4% of acreage. And because statistics only for these percentages of the harvesting campaign.
The increase in yields on average in the country is demonstrated not only in terms of grain. The Ministry of Agriculture offers reporting data for other crops. Thus, in comparison with last year, agricultural organizations and peasant farms increased the yield of vegetables from 140, 5 centners from hectare to 144, 9 centners per hectare. The yield of potatoes and sugar beet increased from 245,5 to 249 and from 463,8 to 464,3 c / ha, respectively. The yield increase gives rapeseed with simultaneous growth in 2017 of acreage (from 15 to almost 22 centners per hectare).
There is a stabilization of the agricultural market. At the same time, official data on prices for basic agricultural products are published. Thus, wholesale prices in the European part of the Russian Federation for wheat flour have decreased by 6,3% since the beginning of the year and amount to 15305 rubles. per ton. Rye flour from the beginning of the year has fallen in price by 3,5% - up to 11785 rub./t. A sharp drop in prices was recorded in the segment of buckwheat sales - after the real price hysteria of 2015-2016, the price of buckwheat went down. In comparison with 2016 - immediately on 20%.
Such a product as sugar fully reflected the inflationary trend in the country. The weekly increase in sugar prices on average in Russia was 0,1%.
The Ministry of Agriculture claims that within a month in the Russian Federation there was a decrease in prices for milk from agricultural producers. The fall in prices averaged 3,4%.
It should be noted here that in the end, a reduction in the price by a milk producer did not at all result in a decrease in the price of a liter of milk in stores. Retail claims that the rise in prices for milk and dairy products is associated with an increase in prices for fuel and the use of transport infrastructure. Although it could obviously find work for the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the simple reason that traders are in any case trying to find a reason for getting more profit, even if the manufacturer goes into the zone of losses.
The Ministry of Agriculture states that the growth in the supply of domestic agricultural products continues along with the growth of the entire agricultural sector. Of course, there are problems, but these are not the problems that agriculture faced even 5-7 years ago.
The Office reports a decrease in imports of agricultural products for a number of items. So, for milk, the drop in imports in July 2017 of the year amounted to 44,89%. True, export has also significantly declined - by 35,84%.
35,18% decreased sugar imports. Small amounts of sugar were imported from Azerbaijan and the PRC. At the same time, the export of sugar abroad from Russia compared to last year amounted to (attention!) 4721,31%.
Again, Azerbaijan bought the largest volumes of Russian sugar. In the second position - Kazakhstan. The six "leaders" in the procurement of sugar from the Russian Federation and Ukraine. By the way, Ukraine is among the leaders in the purchase of other agricultural products from Russia. For example, milk. Since the beginning of the year, almost 15 thousand tons have been purchased.
The three leaders in grain procurement from the Russian Federation are Egypt, Turkey and Yemen. For almost three 6 million tons. It should be noted that Russia increased imports in a number of grains. For example, in Vietnam and Georgia.
As you can see, the task of not only ensuring the food security of Russia itself, but also accessing foreign markets for Russian agricultural products is being solved. When considering unfair competition from a number of "partners", this is problematic, but any problem, as the industry itself shows, can be resolved if you apply strength and do not blame it on the weather, then on the envious neighbor.
The question attracts special attention for a variety of reasons, and all of them are in one way or another connected with the very possibility of Russia to provide the population without thinking about what the "partners" think about this. The older and middle generation of citizens remember very well how overnight the goods disappeared from the store shelves, then after some time these shelves literally began to fill up with European and North American products, which attracted colorful labels and often surprises with internal content ... , according to numerous testimonies of people involved in the late Soviet food industry, warehouses in a number of regions were overloaded with domestic products, which kept eh from the exit for the implementation - at sunset USSR deficit created largely artificial.
The above report Ministry of Agriculture states that the harvest campaign of the 2017 of the year, if it does not lead to another record, can follow in its results to the impressive values of previous years - for 100 million tons of grain.
So, these departments on 11 August.
The total sown area for grain and leguminous plants in Russia in 2017 was about 47,8 million hectares. To be "more visible" - it is more than the territory, for example, Sweden or Uzbekistan. At the same time, it is 41% of the area of the sown area of the USSR of the 1986 model of the year. Although in this case it is incorrect to compare with the USSR for the simple reason that the territory of the USSR, which obviously was not limited to the territory of the RSFSR.
At the same time, Russian agrarians, as follows from the reports, annually increase the acreage, which once again confirms the fact that the agricultural sector is indeed on the rise today. And let the phrase have already managed to fill the edge of teeth, but it is quite possible to repeat once again: “thanks to the sanctions!”
On 10, August, in Russia as a whole, grain and leguminous plants were threshed from an area of about 14,4 million hectares (30,1% of the total sown area). At the same time, 59 million tons of grain was milled. For comparison: this is 13% less than on the same date last year. However, farmers state a significant increase in yield. If in 2016, the average yield by this time was 34,5 centners per hectare, then this year it is already 40,9 centners per hectare. Growth - 18,6%. Record yield, it would seem, as in previous years (due to at least climatic factors) should be demonstrated by agricultural farms in the Central (45,9 centners / ha) and Southern Federal Districts (42,3 centners / hectares). However, in the current year, the Northwest District shows truly record levels. If in the NWFD in 2016, the yield of grain and leguminous plants was less than 30 centners per hectare, in 2017 the figure is impressive - almost 48 centners per hectare. In fairness, in the Northwestern Federal District grain and cleaned only with 4% of acreage. And because statistics only for these percentages of the harvesting campaign.
The increase in yields on average in the country is demonstrated not only in terms of grain. The Ministry of Agriculture offers reporting data for other crops. Thus, in comparison with last year, agricultural organizations and peasant farms increased the yield of vegetables from 140, 5 centners from hectare to 144, 9 centners per hectare. The yield of potatoes and sugar beet increased from 245,5 to 249 and from 463,8 to 464,3 c / ha, respectively. The yield increase gives rapeseed with simultaneous growth in 2017 of acreage (from 15 to almost 22 centners per hectare).
There is a stabilization of the agricultural market. At the same time, official data on prices for basic agricultural products are published. Thus, wholesale prices in the European part of the Russian Federation for wheat flour have decreased by 6,3% since the beginning of the year and amount to 15305 rubles. per ton. Rye flour from the beginning of the year has fallen in price by 3,5% - up to 11785 rub./t. A sharp drop in prices was recorded in the segment of buckwheat sales - after the real price hysteria of 2015-2016, the price of buckwheat went down. In comparison with 2016 - immediately on 20%.
Such a product as sugar fully reflected the inflationary trend in the country. The weekly increase in sugar prices on average in Russia was 0,1%.
The Ministry of Agriculture claims that within a month in the Russian Federation there was a decrease in prices for milk from agricultural producers. The fall in prices averaged 3,4%.
It should be noted here that in the end, a reduction in the price by a milk producer did not at all result in a decrease in the price of a liter of milk in stores. Retail claims that the rise in prices for milk and dairy products is associated with an increase in prices for fuel and the use of transport infrastructure. Although it could obviously find work for the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the simple reason that traders are in any case trying to find a reason for getting more profit, even if the manufacturer goes into the zone of losses.
The Ministry of Agriculture states that the growth in the supply of domestic agricultural products continues along with the growth of the entire agricultural sector. Of course, there are problems, but these are not the problems that agriculture faced even 5-7 years ago.
The Office reports a decrease in imports of agricultural products for a number of items. So, for milk, the drop in imports in July 2017 of the year amounted to 44,89%. True, export has also significantly declined - by 35,84%.
35,18% decreased sugar imports. Small amounts of sugar were imported from Azerbaijan and the PRC. At the same time, the export of sugar abroad from Russia compared to last year amounted to (attention!) 4721,31%.
Again, Azerbaijan bought the largest volumes of Russian sugar. In the second position - Kazakhstan. The six "leaders" in the procurement of sugar from the Russian Federation and Ukraine. By the way, Ukraine is among the leaders in the purchase of other agricultural products from Russia. For example, milk. Since the beginning of the year, almost 15 thousand tons have been purchased.
The three leaders in grain procurement from the Russian Federation are Egypt, Turkey and Yemen. For almost three 6 million tons. It should be noted that Russia increased imports in a number of grains. For example, in Vietnam and Georgia.
As you can see, the task of not only ensuring the food security of Russia itself, but also accessing foreign markets for Russian agricultural products is being solved. When considering unfair competition from a number of "partners", this is problematic, but any problem, as the industry itself shows, can be resolved if you apply strength and do not blame it on the weather, then on the envious neighbor.
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