Foreign manufacturers of agricultural machinery with high level of localization on the territory of the Russian Federation should receive 2 billion rubles of subsidies of the additional 20 billion roubles provided in the budget. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at meeting on development of agriculture.

"We yesterday met with representatives of German business, some of them could legitimately consider themselves to be Russian producers, because the production of agricultural machinery they have reached their required by the government of the Russian Federation the level of localization. So they're all Russian producers of agricultural machinery has put the question of the continuation of subsidies for the production of agricultural machinery", - Putin said.

The President noted that the Vice Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, "has suggested to direct on these purposes 2 billion of the 20 billion roubles (additional subsidies, budgeted 2018)". "I think that's right, need you to mean it, although these subsidies are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of industry and trade", - the President added.

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