MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

BARRIERS PREVENTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT BARRIERS PREVENTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT (SSM) APPLICATION AND RECOMMENDEDS SM PRACTICES IN (SSM) APPLICATION AND RECOMMENDEDS SM PRACTICES IN

THE RUSSIA FEDERATIONTHE RUSSIA FEDERATION

RUSSIA IN THE WORLD

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Far Eastern Federal District

Siberian FederalDistrict

UralFederalDistrict

CentralFederalDistrict

NorthWestern FederalDistrict

Volga Federal District

NorthCaucasian

FederalDistrict

SouthernFederalDistrict

Crimean FederalDistrict

CAPITAL Moscow

TOTAL AREA 17.125,407 sq. km

POPULATION 146.267,288 people

CURRENCY Russian Rouble

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Russian

TIME ZONES from +3 to +12 (w/o +5)

RUSSIA STRETCHES ALMOST 10,000 km FROM WEST TO EAST AND MORE THAN 4,000 km FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.

North West Norway and Finland

West Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus South West Ukraine

South Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan

South East China, Mongolia, North Korea East (maritime border) USA, Japan

BORDERS OF RUSSIA

AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS 386, 500 sq. km

KEY GOALS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMKEY GOALS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMAND REGULATING MARKETS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, AND REGULATING MARKETS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS,

RAW MATERIALS AND FOODS FOR RAW MATERIALS AND FOODS FOR 2013 – 20202013 – 2020 PERIOD PERIOD

Securing reliance on food products according to the indicators defined in the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation

Increasing the financial stability of the Agro-Industrial Complex enterprises

Sustainable rural development

Securing epizootic safety on the territory of the Russian Federation

Restoration and efficient usage of land and other resources in agrarian production and environment agrarian production

Accelerated import substitution of agricultural products on meat (pork, poultry, cattle), milk, outdoor and greenhouse vegetables, seed potatoes, fruits and vegetables

Ensuring sales of agricultural production, improvement of its marketability by creating conditions for seasonal storage and processing

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STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2013-2020 PERIOD

Financing (RUR billion)

KEY AREAS#

555,3Development of crop production, processing and sales of crop production

346,4Development of livestock production, processing and sales of livestock production

76,5Development of meat cattle breeding

114,3Support of small farms

31,6

81,9

247,4

Support of cattle breeding, seed breeding and seed production 77,3

Technical and technological modernization, innovative development

Development of amelioration of arable lands

Development of diary cattle breeding

Development of wholesale distribution centers and social food system infrastructure

Development of the financial credit system of the Agro-Industrial Complex

Development of outdoor and greenhouse vegetable farming and seed potato production

Sustainable rural development for 2014 - 2017 period and up to 2020 (Federal Target Program)

79,2

88,7

43,0

139,6

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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT MEASURES OF AGRAIAN PRODUCTION

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Wholesale distribution centers (creation)

Seed breeding and seed production centers

Fruit storages

Potato and vegetable storages

Greenhouse complexes

Diary cattle breeding complexes (diary farms)

The new product of state support – compensating agrarian producers for 20% of direct costs for creation or modernization of the following facilities

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The state of lands used for agriculture purposes in the Russian Federation

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The area of inspected agricultural lands is 8 879 million hectares The area of inspected agricultural lands is 8 879 million hectares

Identified negative processes - 37%

3,259 million ha

Satisfactory state - 63%

5, 620 million ha

FEDERAL TARGET PROGRAM «RECLAMATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS

IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE PERIOD OF 2014-2020”

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Total financing of the Program in 2014 – 2020: 185059,3 mln rubles, including:- research and engineering work - 204,4 mln rubles;- capital funds - 131850 mln rubles;- others - 53004,9 mln rubles.

Financing at the expense of federal budget: 75297 mln rubles, including:- research and engineering work - 82,7 mln rubles;- capital funds - 47850 mln rubles;- others - 27364 mln rubles.

Financing at the expense of regional and municipal budgets: 46001 ,9 mln rubles, including:- research and engineering work - 121,7 mln rubles;- capital funds - 28000 mln rubles;- others - 17880,2 mln rubles.

Financing at the expense of out-budget sources: 63760,4 mln rubles, including:- capital funds - 56000 mln rubles;- others - 7760,4 mln rubles.

ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY OF THE FEDERAL TARGET PROGRAM

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From January 1, 2021 annual production of agricultural products from the areas reclaimed within the realization of the Program is expected to be not less 5160,7 thousand tons of fodder units

Ensure crop productivity, independently on climatic conditions, due to usage of 840,96 thousand hectares of reclaimed lands

Maintenance and establishment of 92,89 thousand new hi-tech working places for agrarian producers due to increasing of land productivity and involvement the new arable lands into production turnover

Main directions to prevent land degradation

Main directionsMain directions

Ensuring sustainable use of agricultural lands and improvement of soil fertility of agricultural lands

Prevent withdrawing of agricultural lands from agricultural use

Involvement in the agricultural use of unused agricultural lands

Modernization, rehabilitation, reconstruction and new construction of reclamation systems and separately located hydraulic systems

Implementation of innovative soil protection techniques and plant technologies

Protection and preservation of agricultural lands from wind erosion and desertification, from water erosion, flooding and underflooding, as well as the implementation of land clearing measures

Recovering of soil fertility and other land clearing measures

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Main tasks on establishing the effective system of Sustainable Soil Management in the Russian Federation

and the further extended recovering of soil fertility

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Improvement of control and land monitoring system, usage of agrarian technologies, technical assessment of amelioration systems, etc.

Development of information and telecommunication system of agro-industrial complex in the Russian Federation, establishing the system for the remote monitoring of

the agricultural lands Implementing the measures on involving the degrade agricultural lands in productive

turnover and their effective usage Providing the legal, methodic and administrative regulation of the measures on recovering

the soil fertility Development of unified conception and system of recovering the soil fertility with the aim

of saturating the service market of agricultural producers with accessible, widely adopted, innovative technologies for recovering the erode and polluted lands

Establishing and introduction in practice of land management the measures on increasing the responsibility and concernment the agricultural producers to use the technologies on preventing the land degradation and the further extended recovering of soil fertility

MEASURES ON INCRESING THE CONCERNMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS

IN APPLYING THE SYSTEM OF SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT

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COSTS SUBSIDIZATION FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS (up to 70%) for applying the measures on recovering the fertility of agricultural lands

REGULATION OF RENTAL PAYMENTS that should decrease along with increasing the soil fertility and increase along with decreasing the soil fertility; decreasing the bank credit rate due to compensating the budgetary share of the rate; providing the profitable agrarian enterprises with the high priority on purchasing the reclaimed lands and lands under reclamation; carrying out the purchasing and commodity interventions, etc.

IMPROVEMENT OF LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that defines the unified admissions for agricultural producers to get the governmental support independently on forms of ownership, eliminates the price disparity among the branches of agro-industrial complex, limits the threshold prices and import quotes, etc.

BARRIES PREVENTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT APPLICATION

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Lack of mechanism on governmental encouragement of agricultural producers for effective land usage and adaptation of advanced technologies for recovering soil fertility;

Not appropriate governmental regulation ineffective usage of land funds and reclaimed lands;

Break by the land owners the regulations on preventing the negative impact on the lands;

Deficiency of the technologies, widely adopted in production conditions, on the service market; generally they have been tested only at the level of scientific researches and only in some cases were used in production conditionsThe problem of not sufficient efficiency of Sustainable Rural Management in CIS countries has large scale format, and its reasons have trans boundary aspects. Solving the questions on effective application the system of Sustainable Soil Management demands the multilateral cooperation among CIS countries and the participation of the international organizations, first of all, in the sphere of experience exchange on development and realization of legal basis and staff training.

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