It approximates the monthly consumption of grain in Russia will be created to ensure food security of the country in case of repetition of the scenarios of 2010 and 2012, said a top Manager.
Then the production of grain in Russia amounted to 61,0 and 70.9 million tons respectively, and now every year our country consumes 76 million tonnes. According to the UGC rating, about half of the created reserves should be directed to support the milling industry, which consumes 1.1 million tons of grain per month. Thus, 3 million tons, enough to provide nearly three-month requirement of all of the country for grain for bread. The remaining volumes will be allocated to support the livestock industry and, above all, small producers, not possessing own raw material base.
“For nearly 20 years, interventions have established ourselves as the operational support of the regions and consumers in case of deficiency or of surplus grain on the market. This allows you to protect domestic grain market from price volatility on world markets and export restrictions,” – said Dmitry Sergeyev.
we will Remind, since April 13 in Russia are commodity intervention, which should stabilize prices for grain and flour and to provide processing enterprises with the necessary volume of grain. Only sold about 1.3 million tons of grain. In total the auction is planned to implement up to 1.5 million tons of grain from the state Fund. All in all, there were stored before the start of the intervention slightly more than 1.75 million tonnes.
may 20 at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in agriculture, the Chairman of the Union of grain exporters Eduard Zernin said that the intervention Fund grain must be reformatted to the Fund of food grain, which will help stabilize prices for millers. And the Ministry of agriculture the idea of “conceptual development of the mechanism of state intervention” supported.
the Mechanism of grain interventions in Russia use since 2001. Thus, the government is trying to stabilize domestic prices: when prices fall below the minimum established UGC buys grain from farmers in the state Fund, and the increase above the maximum established – on the contrary, sells grain from the state Fund.
full interview with the CEO of the UGC, Dmitry Sergeyev, read in the nearest numbers of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
