Bashkiria will receive 308.8 million rubles of "dairy" subsidies from the federal budget

UFA, 25 May 2015. /Bashinform News Agency, Elvira Latypova/. Bashkortostan will receive subsidies for milk production in the amount of 308.8 million rubles. The subsidies are allocated for milk producers and are paid per 1 kg of sold and/or shipped milk on its own processing. The corresponding decree of the Government of the Russian Federation is published on its official website.

The funds are allocated for 2015 within the framework of the subprogram "Development of Dairy Farming" of the State Program on development of agriculture and regulation of agricultural products, raw materials and foods for 2013-2020".

83 regions of the Russian Federation will receive a total of 6.2 billion rubles throughout the country. The so-called "milk" regions will get the greatest amount of subsidies. Among them, in addition to Bashkortostan, there is a Krasnodar Territory (396.9 million rubles) and Tatarstan (313.1 million). The funds are distributed in accordance with the rules approved by the Government of the Russian Federation in 2012.

As the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture RB explain, such subsidies are paid since 2009, they are designed for farms and farm enterprises producing cow, and since 2015, and goat milk. In 2014 in Bashkortostan it was produced 1.773 million tons of milk – by 3.6 percent more than in 2013.