Import substitution is gaining momentum. Its next stage is to simplify the way to the counters of Russian food stores, produced by domestic farmers. And they will do it simply - allocate money from the federal budget. This is provided by the draft government decree prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to the content of the document, agrarians will return almost half of all funds spent on the distribution of their goods in the food market, Izvestia writes.. "At the expense of subsidies, no more than 50% of the actual costs of contracts for product promotion will be compensated," the explanatory note to the draft law.

Such a measure of state support, according to agrarians, will be exemplified for the first time. And it will only affect the consumer agricultural cooperatives - associations of private farms and farmers. For production - collective farms and fishing cooperatives - it will not be distributed.

This will help the development of small forms of agribusiness, said the vice-president of the Association of Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives Olga Bashmachnikova. Since personal subsidiary plots and farming because of the huge costs of contracting with trade networks and the delivery of products there, it is very difficult to bring their food products to the market, "allocating additional funds from the federal budget is the right step," she added..

Before that, Bashmachkova reminded, the aid was allocated only in the form of grants. This year, this support took 1.5 billion rubles. To receive a grant, the agricultural cooperative must pass a special selection. After that, he can win no more than 70 million rubles. , Which "is not enough: the spending of agricultural producers will continue".

Now the percentage of goods produced by Russian agrarian associations on domestic shelves is quite small - less than 10%. However, thanks to the support offered by the Ministry of Agriculture, the figure could significantly increase, Bashmachnikova noted..

According to the chairman of the administrative council of the Federal Union of Agricultural Consumer Cooperatives Sergei Toropygin, specific indicators of costs for moving products, concluding contracts and others depend on many conditions - the region, the agricultural production sector.

Agriculture becomes profitable, wrote earlier "Izvestia". For three years, the profitability of the agricultural sector, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, increased 2.2 times.