The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation proposes to quota the import of seeds of wheat, rye, barley, corn from 2024

Published 2023년 2월 16일

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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture is planning to introduce import quotas on certain agricultural seeds from 'unfriendly foreign states' from 2024. The types of seeds include wheat, rye, barley, corn, soybeans, rapeseed, sunflower, and sugar beets. The ministry aims to reduce reliance on imported seeds and stimulate domestic seed production to ensure food security, as the country's self-sufficiency in seeds of major agricultural crops is currently 60.3%, below the target of 75% set by the Food Safety Doctrine.

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The Ministry of Agriculture proposes from 2024 to quota imports to Russia of seeds of wheat, rye, barley, corn, as well as soybeans, rapeseed, sunflower and sugar beets. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the ministry. “It is necessary to accelerate import substitution in this fundamental segment of agriculture. In this regard, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture considers it appropriate to establish quantitative restrictions on the import of certain types of agricultural seeds into the Russian Federation from unfriendly foreign states. rye, barley, corn, soybeans, rapeseed, sunflower and sugar beet for the period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 inclusive, it is planned to be submitted for consideration by the subcommittee on customs-tariff and non-tariff regulation on February 17, 2023," the ministry. At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to flexibly regulate the volume of imported seeds by gradually reducing the volume of these quantitative ...

Source: Kvedomosti