More than 5 billion rubles will be spent on support of agriculture in the suburbs in 2017, the funds provided from regional and Federal budget.

"The allocations for 2017 to support agriculture increased by 6.5%. From the regional budget we plan to invest in the industry more than 2.6 billion roubles and to involve for these purposes of 2.4 billion rubles from the Federal budget", — said Andrey Razin during the government hour in monoblue.

He noted that the company managed to double the support of livestock breeding dairy, to keep the same as last year, the subsidies for the production of milk.

According to him, in 2017 in the suburbs is expected to implement at least 26 projects in the agricultural sector with a total investment of over 30 billion rubles and to create about 1.7 thousand new jobs. The main investment projects will be implemented in dairy farming, cultivation of greenhouse vegetables, mushroom, meat processing.

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