The domestic farmers gathered this year a record harvest of vegetables.

True, not all, but those who are granted special - greenhouse - conditions. In particular, by October 9 in the greenhouses of the country collected 186.5 thousand. tons of tomatoes - this is 35.7% more than last year. Pleased and greenhouse cucumbers - they grew by 18.3% more - 405.8 thousand. t, Izvestia writes with reference to the reports of the Ministry of Agriculture. At the same time on the open ground the picture is the same: this year, from the fields, it was possible to collect a total of 2.7 million tons of vegetables (in 2016 g. - 2.6 million tons). However, considering what the present summer was like in Central Russia, thank you, and on this. Of course, a tomato that ripens in the sun is much more delicious of its greenhouse colleague, but in such a climate it is not necessary to choose: either from Turkey to take the same greenhouses or to build greenhouses themselves. In Russia, at the state level, it was decided to follow the second path. In 2016 year. was built new greenhouses with a total area of ??170 hectares, said the general director of the association "Greenhouses of Russia" Natalia Rogova. This year they already harvested the first crop. Another 280 hectares of glazed premises for planting vegetables will be ready for the next season. Such rates of introduction of new agricultural objects became possible only due to state support:.

granting loans at preferential rates, reimbursement of 20% of the cost of building greenhouses from the state budget. Profitability of the sector attracted attention of private investors. As a result, according to the president of the National Union of vegetable producers Sergey Korolev, today the country is 85% provided with cucumbers of its own production and 50% tomatoes. It is expected that in three years it will take no more than 10-15% of the vegetables of this group to be imported.

Increasing the yield of domestic greenhouse vegetables will lead to a reduction in prices for them, farmers promise.