Igor Kuzin told the participants of the meeting on the new mechanism of state support, which calls for preferential loans to reduce the financial burden on agricultural producers.

During the meeting, representatives of the region presented the Deputy Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation the investment project for the construction of a livestock breeding complex for six thousand heads of cattle of JSC "Agrofirma Dmitrova Gora". This project pretends to receive state support funds.

"Currently, the Ministry of agriculture is actively working to improve the current system of support for investors in the sector, particularly in priority areas", — said Igor Kuzin.

It was noted that in the Tver region in January-September of the current year in farms of all categories produced livestock and poultry for slaughter (in live weight) 131.4 thousand tons, which is 36% higher than last year. Total volume of agricultural production in the region in the first half of this year grew by 15.4%.

The meeting also discussed issues related to the situation on the market of production and consumption of milk in the Tver region.

In the working meeting took part the Director of the Department of Economics and public support APK Natalia Chernetsova, Minister of agriculture of the Tver region Pavel Migulev, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Svetlana Maximova, a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Andrey Epishin, as well as representatives of Agroholding "Dmitrov Mountain".