This was announced on Monday by the first Deputy Minister of agriculture and food of the Republic Peter Brykov. "All were planted, and last year, more than 140 thousand ha. In the absence of precipitation and summer drought the harvest was lost. It is more than 35% of the area or 50 hectares, most of them - grain and fodder crops, and vegetables", — said Brykov.

According to him, some of the farmers in respect of losses suffered will be compensated by insurance. "This year insured 17 thousand hectares", — said the Deputy Minister.

Other agricultural producers from 12 districts, where the drought was imposed emergency claim payments from the Federal budget. "Documents to compensate for losses we submitted to the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation. In the application of damage specified by 309 million rubles. Expect to receive 70% of this amount", — said Brykov.

According to the operative data of the Ministry of agriculture of Buryatia, the Republic harvested 250 thousand tons of feed (64% of the plan, or 104% compared to last year). Threshed about 8.7 thousand hectares of grain crops, harvested about 10 thousand tons of grain. Removed 7.6 thousand hectares of potatoes (54% of plan), 1 thousand ha of vegetables (42% of the plan). Buryatia is suffering from summer drought over the last few years. In the past year, the loss she suffered more than 100 households, the area of affected crops was 69.7 hectares. Farmers in the region received over 300 million roubles from the Federal budget.

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