Kirov region, which the locals called "the edge of evergreen tomatoes", was among the best in the level of profitability of agricultural production in the Volga Federal district. As news Agency REGNUM in the regional government, this was stated by the Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev at a meeting on "Development of agriculture in the Volga Federal district".

According to him, in the whole Volga Federal district the profitability of agricultural production is 13.5%. In almost all regions recorded a rise in.

The highest profitability by the end of 2014 achieved in the Samara region — 30%, the Kirov region — 21%, Chuvash Republic — 19%, the Perm region — 18%.

At the same time, in the Ulyanovsk region the level of profitability was negative 7.5%, in Bashkortostan - minus 0.1%.

Total revenues of agricultural enterprises of the Volga Federal district in 2014 amounted to $ 373 billion rubles, which is almost 19% of revenue in General in our country.

As reported IA REGNUM, earlier the Governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh identified among the priorities in the development of the region the need to further improve the profitability of agricultural enterprises.

As a key for the agribusiness in the region of the designated tasks: ensuring a steady supply of raw materials for processing enterprises, technical and technological re-equipment of the industry, improving the genetic potential of the herd of farm animals.

In addition, to improve the level of profitability of agricultural enterprises is planned at the expense of improving the organization of labor, use of achievements of agricultural science and the application of innovative technologies. July 7 at S. Matinez the Nizhny Novgorod region in the framework of the "Volga field day-2015" held a meeting on issues of development of agriculture County

According to the Volga Embassy, now the key problems in agriculture in the district are connected with the necessity of improving the system of state support of crop production, low availability of credit, high debt load of the agricultural enterprises, undeveloped mechanism of agricultural insurance. Another problem is neapolitana of agricultural land.

At present, the share of agriculture in gross regional product of the Volga Federal district is more than 8% of the average index in Russia 5%.