In the Kurgan region, where heavy snowfalls remain unharvested over 800 thousand tons of crops in the amount of about 4.5 billion (40 percent of the grain), damaged. About it the correspondent. TASS said the Director of the Department of agriculture Kurgan oblast Sergey Pugin.

"To date, 3 of the municipality has introduced a state of emergency, another ten are prepared to do this," said Pugin. - This is a rather laborious process associated with obtaining approvals, including from the meteorologists. But we can say that we are already working in the emergency situation".

Governor Alexey Kokorin called the Declaration of disaster emergency measure. The day before he said that enterprises will be able to apply to the Ministry of agriculture for compensation, and to ask banks to extend loans.

In the Sverdlovsk region, where in the southern regions had the monthly norm of precipitation, the snow was about 15 percent of crops. As noted by the Minister of agriculture Michael Kopytov, snow cover prevents operation of machinery. "I hope that the snow will come down on the frozen ground will be able to remove another part, "he said, adding that under favorable conditions a day, you will remove approximately three percent of the crop.

In the Tyumen region the crops harvested by 85 percent, according to the head of the region Vladimir Yakushev in conversation with the Plenipotentiary representative of RF President in the Urals Federal district Igor Holmansky. Snowfall in areas where cultivated crops, were not abundant, so farmers can harvest fully.

Yesterday portal Agro2b.ru passed words of the Director of the Department of crop production, chemization and plant protection of the Ministry of agriculture of Russia Peter Chekmareva, who said that the weather in Siberia and the Urals will not affect the overall harvest in the country, expectations remain at 104,2 million tonnes in net weight.