food security
Favorable weather conditions this year made it possible to increase the sowing of the crop – potatoes and vegetables – many weeks earlier. It is possible to get the very first early harvest earlier, the so-called “borscht set”. Usually our first autumn is at the end of May – at the beginning of June the beginning of the shelf begins. Therefore, the end of May in the largest share of imports.
– The gross harvest of vegetables in 2021 amounted to 5.2 million tons, – said Mikhail Glushkov, Executive Director of the airport of the fruit and vegetable association. – This year, thanks to the measures that the Ministry of Agriculture plans to implement, this forecast of collections is at the level of 5.7 million tons, that is, plus 500 thousand tons, more open ground vegetables were produced this year, which includes a set of vegetables. But here at the same time it is important to build a building.
producers note that vegetable shelves before the first harvest in May-June exceed the production volume in the CIS countries – Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. To a lesser extent from Egypt, Israel and Turkey.
– For import substitution for open ground vegetables, we need to increase the volume of production, the Ministry of Agriculture is actively engaged in this, – especially Ilya Glushkov. – We have prepared a new federal project, which will be aimed at increasing the area under crops, increasing productivity, and increasing production growth.
Today, Russia ranks fifth in the world in the production of pigs, fifth in the production of poultry meat, third in the world in turkey, which was not produced at all before, and is one of the ten main producers of beef. Even 20 years ago, Russia imported from 40 to 70% of different types of meat.
– If the borders had not been closed and it would have been impossible to do, then we would have almost seized, for exceptional beef, – said the head of the executive committee of the national association of trade unions, Sergei Yushin. – But we have a high level of consumption. Even 10 years ago we consumed 12 kg less per person per year, 6 years ago we consumed 5 kg less per person per year. Today, meat consumption in the world averages about 43 kg per person per year. For comparison, in Russia last year – 77 kg. In rich countries, on average – 82 kg, in very poor countries – 23 kg.