In Irkutsk Region, additional results of the competition under the support program for beginning farmers were summed up. Thanks to federal funding, 49 more applicants received beginner farmer status. In 2015, 80 farmers received grants to create and develop farms in the region, and total program funding reached 119.4 million rubles. Details on the competition, number of applications, and grant amounts are in the article.
As reported by the acting Minister of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region, Irina Bondarenko, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Angara Region has summed up additional results of the competition under the “Support for Beginning Farmers” program in 2015, financed from the federal and regional budgets.Due to the allocation of additional funds from the federal budget in the amount of 36.7 million rubles, the commission recognized another 49 applicants as beginning farmers. Thus, this year 80 beginning farmers received grants for the establishment and development of peasant (farmer) households. In total, 119.4 million rubles were allocated for the “Support for Beginning Farmers” program in 2015, including 72.3 million from the federal budget and 47.1 million from the regional budget.
As a reminder, the main stage of the competition took place in May 2015. A total of 206 applications were submitted to participate in the “Support for Beginning Farmers” program competition, of which 145 were admitted. Thirty-one farmers were recognized as winners. The grant amount is up to 1.5 million rubles.
From 2012 to 2014, 158 beginning peasant farms were established.