This is stated in the February "Monitoring the economic situation". In all the years and all the winter months, imported tomatoes when crossing the Russian border turned out to be cheaper overall than Russia — at the border crossing greenhouse enterprise, says the report.

The difference in prices of foreign tomatoes at the border and consumer prices much more than between the sale price of Russian greenhouses and consumer prices, the report said. While protectionist measures have created only a temporary effect for increasing competitiveness of vegetable, are confident the authors of the study.

In the fruit and vegetable Union, a situation attributed to the fact that the Russian hothouse enterprises now bear the major investment burden. Active investments in the Russian greenhouse vegetable production are in the last three or four years. The costs incurred by investors on the capital, much higher than, for example, in Turkey and in other countries. The payback period is 10-12 years. After you have paid credits, the investment burden will be reduced, the operating efficiency of the Russian hothouse enterprises will be at the level of world standards, confident in the Union.

Recall, according to Rosstat, in 2018, the production of greenhouse vegetables in the Russian agricultural enterprises grew by nearly 10%, to 1.01 million tonnes, over the past five years, the production increased 1.6 times. Despite this development, imports of fresh vegetables last year also added more than 9%, close to 0.9 million tons As previously estimated by the company "Technology of Growth", all significant compared to 2017 in absolute terms increased imports of tomatoes by 56 thousand tons.

Source: Agrarian