The Minister of agriculture announced the preliminary results of the year 2016 and gave instructions to the Deputy Ministers and heads of departments of the Ministry of agriculture for the main tasks of the current year.

The Minister said that in 2016, was adopted by the updated Plan of action for the prevention of spread of ASF and instructed to accelerate work on coordination of the draft law on the delegation of the Ministry of agriculture authority to harmonize the structure of Executive authorities in the field of veterinary medicine and Rosselkhoznadzor – powers on control over activity of regional Executive authorities in the field of veterinary.

The "safe veterinary environment is the basis of our food security and a prerequisite for export of Russian products. Please speed up the work in this direction", — said Alexander Tkachev.