It is planned to allocate per 222 billion rubles for Russian agricultural sector within three years

UFA, 20 September 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Olga Murtazina/.The Russian Finance Ministry plans to allocate 222 billion rubles annually for financing the State Program for the Development of Agriculture in the next three years. Such amounts are set forth in the draft law on the federal budget for 2018 and the planning period of 2019 and 2020, Agroinfo reports.

It is expected that in 2018 the expenditure on agriculture will amount to 222.3 billion rubles, in 2019 and 2020 - 222.2 and 222.3 billion rubles, respectively.

The program for the development of the fishery complex supposes allocation of 10.2 billion rubles in 2018, 10.05 billion - in 2019 and 10.3 billion rubles- in 2020.

In early September, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that next year the government would plan to support the agricultural sector in the same amount as this year. It was about 243 billion rubles, of which 196 billion - from the budget, the remaining 47 – of additional support.