The Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev participated in the meeting of the RF Government, chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

During the meeting were discussed the distribution of subsidies between the regions in 2017 associated with implementation of the Federal target program "Sustainable development of rural territories in 2014 - 2017 and until 2020".

The total amount of support for the activities of the programme in the current year from the Federal budget will amount to 6.8 billion rubles, including:

– for the improvement of living conditions of citizens living in rural areas, including young families and young professionals – 3.5 billion rubles;

– integrated construction of objects of social and engineering infrastructure of the settlements located in rural areas – 3.25 billion rubles., of which development of water – 980,1 million rubles; gasification 823,9 million rubles; the network of General education organizations 391,8 mln.; network feldsher-midwife stations and (or) the offices of General practitioners – 156, 7 million rubles; the network of planar sports facilities – 117,5 million rubles for the implementation of projects of comprehensive development of sites for compact housing development – 783,5 million rubles;

– grant support for local initiatives of citizens living in rural areas, to reach 76.5 million rubles.

The corresponding draft order of the RF Government on the allocation of subsidies between regions in 2017 was prepared by the Ministry of agriculture.

Additionally, the current year will be 8.3 billion rubles for the implementation of measures for construction of roads in rural areas.