The first to Stavropol territory the project on greenhouse cultivation of berries will be implemented in the region in 2018. The investment will be about 2 billion roubles, has informed on Tuesday to journalists the first Deputy Chairman of the government of edge Nikolay Velikdan.

"Innovation in the field of protected ground - in 2018 in the city of Kislovodsk starts new construction of greenhouse plant that will produce berries in particular, and in the winter, in the area of 10 hectares: strawberries, raspberries and blueberries," he said.

According to Velikana, the project will take about a year, according to preliminary estimates, the commissioning of the greenhouse complex in work can occur as early as 2018. "This is the first project for the region, investors from England, ... investments will amount to about 2 billion rubles", - said the first Deputy Prime Minister.

Nicholas Velikdan added that Stavropol Krai plans to export 5.5 million tonnes of grain in 2017, more than 57% higher than the previous year.

"To be exported this year we planned 5.5 million tons of grain harvest in 2017. We took a very serious export position in the market of the Eastern countries - China, Israel, Iran, Azerbaijan and other countries," he said.

As previously reported, the export of grain in Stavropol region in 2016 amounted to 3.5 million tonnes, which is almost a quarter less than in 2015. The main countries-importers last year were Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Austria, Latvia, Belgium and Iran.

In 2017 in the Stavropol region has harvested 9.3 million tons of grain, while the record set in 2016, to 9.2 million tonnes, their own needs, the region provides a fully. "Our demand is actually not so great - we need 400-500 thousand tons of grain for bread, you need about 200 thousand tons of fodder grain, seeds of about 400 thousand tons", - said Velikdan.

In 2017, Russia gathered a record grain crop of 140 million tons of grain in bunker weight. According to expert estimates, in net weight grain harvest could reach 132 to 133 million tonnes, So this year will beat the record of the Soviet era, when Russia at the end of 1978, has collected 127 million tonnes of grain. Last year Russia exported a record 35.5 million tonnes of grain, at the end of this year, the agriculture Ministry expects grain exports at 45 million tonnes.