Kostroma region has allocated more than 56 million rubles on the development of crop production, the press service of the regional Governor. Of these, about 53 million provided by the Federal budget.

State support got 231 agricultural producers.

Most of the money was received by the producers of grain and leguminous crops — 44,75 million. Seed potato producers received more than 8 million rubles, manufacturers of vegetables, about 3.3 million, the producers of flax — 368 thousand. Just concluded 9 agreements between the Department of agriculture of the region and municipal districts for the provision of state support measures.

The press service of the promise until the end of March 2018, to support dairy farming. Financial support from the Federal and regional budget will amount to more than 49 million rubles.

IA REGNUM reminds that in 2017 in the Kostroma region have decreased cereals, potatoes and vegetables. Officials noted that due to bad weather

"the harvesting campaign started three weeks later compared with last year, and the risk of losing a significant part of the crop persisted throughout the entire period."

Note that due to frosts and rains in the early summer of 2017 in two districts of the Kostroma region have been destroyed 210 hectares of winter crops. Due to adverse weather conditions was harvested 13 times less than the farmland, silage harvested seven times less than last year. The damage amounted to 5 million rubles. Then in the affected areas was introduced a state of emergency.