Financing of agro-industrial complex in the Komi Republic it is planned to increase by 2017 15% from the current 1.3 billion to 1.5 billion rubles, which will continue to be two percent of the total revenues of the regional budget. Farmers of the Republic will concentrate efforts on the development of livestock, fisheries and reindeer. As noted today in the state Council of the Republic, the Minister of agriculture and food of the region Vladimir Maltsev, we are not talking about the substitution, as “the land of risky agriculture” completely self-only potatoes.

"The priority for the next three years - the construction of modern livestock farms, slaughterhouses, potato and meets all standards, increasing the share of family livestock firms. The ultimate goal of the program is to increase the share of self-sufficiency of the region's milk, meat, fish, crop, now in the Republic of sufficient only potatoes grown", - said Maltsev.

Earlier in the regional Ministry of agriculture stated that the authorities of the Komi intend to tighten the conditions for the granting of subsidies for the production of milk and meat. Economy, permitting a reduction in milk production and number of cows, will receive financial assistance on a smaller scale.

In the region is constructed and reconstructed seven farms on 1414 cows. By the end of 2017 in the Komi Republic is planned to increase the share of self-sufficiency milk from the current 23% to 27% (up to 58 thousand tons per year), meat from 28 to 32% to 26 thousand tons, vegetables - up to 5.7 tons, the Minister said.