In Irkutsk region they plan to build a vegetable storage facility with a capacity of 17.5 thousand tons at the farm of Iskra OJSC. Construction will begin this year, and commissioning is planned for 2016. The project will also be submitted to the Russian Agriculture Ministry to seek reimbursement of part of the costs from the federal budget. The article explains which agroindustrial facilities can count on such subsidies and how the competitive selection will be held.
The project to build a vegetable storage facility with a capacity of 17,500 tons will be implemented. It is expected that the site for the project will be the vegetable-growing farm of OJSC "Iskra".As reported by the regional government press service, construction work is scheduled to begin this year, and the facility will be commissioned in 2016.
The program will then be submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation to participate in a competition for reimbursement of part of the direct costs incurred in the creation and modernization of agricultural industry facilities.
"The Government of Russia has approved a resolution on the rules for providing and distributing subsidies from the federal budget to reimburse part of the direct costs incurred in the creation and modernization of agricultural industry facilities," said Irina Bondarenko, acting Minister of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region.
"The Ministry of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region intends to actively participate in this area. After all the necessary regulatory framework has been approved, a commission will begin operating in the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia for the competitive selection of investment projects, which will include representatives of the expert community and government authorities. The facilities eligible for subsidies are fruit storage facilities, potato and vegetable storage facilities, greenhouse and livestock complexes, breeding and genetic centers and breeding and seed-growing centers, wholesale distribution centers," the acting minister noted.