By the end of 2016 grapes planted almost 2 times less than planned, the Ministry of agriculture. The rate for the production of grapes largely behind the state program of development of agriculture. Regarding other products or growth or a slight drop.

Investors do not want to invest in the production of grapes due to the long payback period: the first money from the investment start to come back at least 4 years. Viticulture in the area of capital-intensive, explain in the Ministry of agriculture.

Russian producers of grapes are unable to carry out the plan of the Ministry of agriculture for agricultural development, the reference on the progress and results of the implementation in 2016 of the state program on development of agriculture for 2013-2020. For the year scheduled to lay the 9,2 thousand hectares of vineyards, but we only got 4.9 thousand ha.

At the same time for two years, Russia has reduced imports of grapes. According to the Federal customs service (FCS), in 2015 it purchased 278 thousand tons, in 2016 – 226 thousand tons.

In 2014-2015, the largest supplier of fresh grapes to Russia was Turkey's deliveries exceeded $120 million a year. From 1 January 2016, Russia imposed a ban on imports of grapes from Turkey, thus the structure of suppliers has changed. Instead of one major supplier Russia buys grapes in Iran, India, Chile and Moldova.

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