This year, due to the cold spring and a protracted sowing campaign, the crop of some crops will drop sharply. This applies to grain, sunflower and sugar beet.

But the growth in the production of greenhouse vegetables is expected, due to which the plant growing index will fall slightly. This is stated in the report prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Izvestia writes,.

The volume of grain and leguminous crops, according to the forecast, will drop to 86% in comparison with 2016 g. And will leave 104 million tons, sunflower seeds - 9.4 million tons (85.4%), sugar beet - 38.5 million tons (75%).

At the same time, due to the construction of new greenhouses and the modernization of old ones, it is expected "a higher yield of vegetable products and potatoes". And the production of plant products as a whole will decrease slightly.

"The volume of production of crop production in comparable prices, taking into account natural and climatic and economic risks, the predicted dynamics of grain prices in the world market" this year will be 1 - 2% lower than in 2016. Level, it was suggested in the Ministry of Agriculture.

With the forecast of the department, the vice-president of the Russian Grain Union Alexander Korbut. He noted that "this spring the spring was cold, and in a number of regions the sowing campaign is delayed, because of which new risks appear, in particular - to get into an unfavorable period for harvesting the harvest".

According to the Director General of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies Dmitry Rylko sunflower in 201. In Russia will collect 10.5 million tons, that is 94% in relation to 2016. A beet harvest, the special agent added, is supposed to be "at the level of last year".

In turn, the executive director of the Fruit and Vegetable Union, Mikhail Glushkov, called possible economic reasons for the decline in harvesting. As you know, this year introduced mechanisms for concessional lending, and the money for their implementation ended in February.

And "the agrarians start to save on the purchase of seeds, fertilizers - they do not buy what they would like, but what is available. This will also affect the yield, "he said..

Earlier, the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said that the agency does not yet see the reasons for reducing the grain harvest in 2017, but made the reservation that it was premature to make a forecast. In 2016 year. In Russia, a record grain harvest was collected for all post-Soviet times - 119.1 million tons in net weight, including 73.3 million tons of wheat.