Cultivated mushroom production in Russia increased by 80.2% in 2020

Regions - leaders in this direction - Kursk, Tula and Moscow regions, as well as Krasnodar Territory In recent years, the production of cultivated mushrooms in Russia has been steadily growing. According to the regional authorities of the agro-industrial complex, at the end of 2020, it increased by 80.2%, to 86.3 thousand tons. The indicator is almost 9 times higher than the level of 2016 (9.7 thousand tons). Regions - leaders in this direction - Kursk region (13.8 thousand tons), Krasnodar Territory (12.2 thousand tons), Tula region (10.7 thousand tons), Moscow region (7.8 thousand tons) ... Mushroom growing is also actively developing in the Leningrad, Voronezh, Kaluga, Rostov regions and the Republic of Tatarstan. The main measure of state support for manufacturers is preferential short-term (for a period of up to 1 year inclusive) and investment (for a period of 2 to 8 years) lending. Last year, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia initiated amendments to the RF Government ...