Since 2014, state support for the horticulture industry in Crimea has increased by more than 10 times

CrimeaPRESS reports:

This year, gardeners in Crimea will receive more than 800 million rubles in subsidies for planting fruit trees, installing trellises, anti-hail nets and uprooting old orchards.

Such assistance from the state will allow our gardeners this year to plant and cultivate apple, cherry, pear, plum and peach orchards on an area of ​​more than 900 hectares. Let me remind you that back in 2014, our farmers in this area could receive a little more than 60 million rubles. Support is more than efficient. Subsidies gave a sharp impetus to the development of the Crimean gardening industry. For comparison, nine years ago, from 200 to 500 hectares were planted annually in Crimea. Now, as a rule, it is about a thousand. Thanks to all these factors, the level of gross production of fruits and berries has also increased. Well, and most importantly, this makes it possible to provide residents and guests of our peninsula with tasty and healthy products, as well as deliver them to the mainland, — quotes the press service of the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea Andrei Savchuk.

According to Andrei Savchuk, the total area of ​​fruit plantations in the republic is about 15 thousand hectares, of which more than 10.5 thousand are fruit-bearing orchards. Pome crops occupy about 6.6 thousand hectares of area, of which more than 5 thousand bear fruit. Stone fruits grow on an area of ​​​​more than 5 thousand hectares, bear fruit on almost 4 thousand. The rest of the area in the Crimean gardens is occupied by walnut, subtropical, citrus crops and berries. Young orchards grow on more than 4,000 hectares, and we will get the first harvest from them in the coming years.

We are gradually coping with the problem of import substitution of seedlings. Since an increase in the volume of laying gardens directly leads to an increase in the need for high-quality planting material. Until recently, the issue was very acute. Fruit seedlings were in short supply. After all, their main suppliers were foreign countries Italy, Poland, Belgium, Serbia. State support for planting gardens with domestic seedlings helps to develop domestic nursery farming. In Crimea, such planting material is produced by 34 agricultural enterprises, which only last year grew more than 3 million seedlings. Our farmers are happy to purchase local planting material. This spring, horticultural enterprises have already planted more than 40 hectares of young gardens. In the fall, it is planned to lay the main area: cherries, peaches, walnuts, apple trees, almonds, hazelnuts, dogwoods, blackberries and pears, the Minister of Agriculture notes.

source: press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea

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