In the second session of the event took part:

- Xenia Shevelkina, Director of the Department of rural development Ministry of agriculture;

- Alexander Arhipov, the Director of the Department of digital development and the management of state information resources PC of the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation;

- Timothy Gusev, Deputy Chairman of the government of the Novgorod region;

- Olga Abramova, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of agriculture and food of the Republic of Udmurtia;

Olga Panova, President of the Union of "our children's Health", head of the program "School Milk" in Russia;

Tatiana Pentelkina, the Director of the Department of development and support of SMEs and micro-businesses of Russian agricultural Bank

- Mihail Murakhovsky, a business Director of aftermarket CNH Industrial

- Oleg Orphan, a farmer, a cheesemaker, head of the onf project "national farmer";

Ivan Chepenko, General Director of "Kolomenskaya berry."

Ksenia Shevelkina spoke about the increasing role of small business in agriculture. In 2019, its share in gross domestic product was 13.6%. At the moment there is a quantitative increase of agricultural production by 10 PP To support these farms from the Federal budget allocated 15.7 billion RUB One of the priority tasks of the government is to prevent the profitability of small agricultural businesses and to ensure financial stability of farmers and cooperatives.

Udmurtia is a region almost entirely consisting only of small farms, United in cooperatives, which ensure the development of the territory. This was reported by Olga Abramova. Here spetsializiruyutsya on breeding geese on the development of horse breeding, beekeeping, production of milk. Milk brand "Green Village" has entered the TOP-5. Recently the region has created 420 jobs. At the local scale is very important. Farmers are reviving the village.

As told by Olga Panova, a stable distribution channel plays an important role for large manufacturers and farmers. In many regions, this sales support there is the program "School milk". And, for example, Udmurt Republic is no exception. The region is one of the first introduced the program, which is aimed at promoting milk.
In addition, as has been said, "a 15 - year experience of realization of the program "School milk" showed that the program promotes development of milk producers, and its implementation everywhere, will allow to build chains for sustainable development and business, and the dairy industry as a whole."

Tatiana Pentelkina congratulated all with Day of the Farmer and informed his colleagues about two interesting initiatives of the Bank in support of small farms. To its 20-th anniversary of JSC "Russian agricultural Bank" launches "This good" and expands the loyalty program "the Harvest" due to the possibility to buy farm products for points earned on card transactions. In addition, from September 1, the Bank opens a School for farmers - own programme of theoretical and practical training, which will allow not only to build an efficient farm business from scratch, but also to improve the skills which have already begun a business to entrepreneurs. In addition to supporting existing farms, the goal of this project is to contribute to the creation of new financially sustainable and profitable farms and thereby give a boost farmers ' movement. As the selected pilot regions Republic of Bashkortostan, Stavropol Krai, Moscow and Novosibirsk region. The first group is the total number of 100 students in the pilot regions will be completely free, all costs for organizing training programs and recruitment of participants will take over the Bank. The set comes right now.

Timothy Gusev said that in the Novgorod region in 2019 was provided by the new form of grant support of peasant (farmer) farms – grant "Agrostat". 14 entrepreneurs were winners of the competition and successfully implement their business projects for the breeding of cattle (7 projects), aquaculture (2 projects), the rabbit (3 projects), sheep (1 project), apiculture (1 project). For 2020 previously expressed a desire to participate in the competition to 72 of the entrepreneur.

In the Novgorod region has approved regional priority project "Development of infrastructure of small business support in rural areas" for the formation and development of the system of agricultural consultancy and information services for agricultural producers. As a result, the coverage of agricultural consulting services in 2020 will be 99%.

Oleg Sirota emphasized the importance of supporting startups. Called a few not very busy and interesting niches. He cited the example of the berry business.

Ivan Chepenko told how, with appropriate support shot his business in just one year. The company acquired a tractor, gradoobrazujushchee, thereby freeing up part of the right of workers, became well-known retail chain in the category fresh.

Michael Murakhovsky stressed the importance of applying in agriculture "intelligent machines" that will allow you to go from farming to the touch, to increase the yield by at least 15% and save the costs of large-scale odobravanje land, for fuel and crop protection agents. He will be replaced by a strictly metered feeding of the land, taking into account the necessity of this on either their site. While tilling and sowing the accuracy of signals from satellite correction RTK will allow you to determine positioning techniques with an accuracy of two centimeters. In the result, due to modern technology and productive technology can lead to significant cost reduction of agricultural products and to improve its quality and hence the production yield as a whole.

As told by Alexander Arkhipov, digitalization, APK – one of the strategic objectives of the Ministry of agriculture. For rapid introduction of digital technologies, the Agency leads work on areas such as the collection and verification of industry data, the conversion of state services into electronic form. We are talking about the full range of measures: subsidies, grants, concessional loans, concessional agricultural leasing and transportation of agricultural products. Also up to 2022 is planned to digitize public services on registration, inspection of machinery, examination for management and issuance of certificates on registration actions using a Single portal of public services in 9 pilot regions. Thus, according to the plans of the Ministry, by the end of 2024, all services included under the purview of the Ministry of agriculture, will be provided in electronic form.

Our lively discussion in the online broadcast on YouTube, Facebook and Vkontakte. The audience asked questions.