Russia: The Ministry of Agriculture has preliminarily determined the size of seed import quotas in 2025

Published 2024년 12월 10일

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The Ministry of Agriculture has announced preliminary quar sizes for imports of agricultural plant seeds from unfriendly countries for the next year, including 12 thousand tons of seed potatoes, 2 thousand tons of rapeseed, and 2.7 thousand tons of sugar beet hybrids. The quota for sugar beet seeds has run out 90% this year, and for corn 60%. The Ministry also plans to increase the use of Russian seeds, including sunflower and soybeans, and decrease the use of imported seeds. The Potato Union is satisfied with the quota size, despite concerns about logistics and the requirement for accreditation and audit of foreign laboratories by Rosselkhoznadzor.

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The Ministry of Agriculture has preliminarily determined the quota sizes for imports of agricultural plant seeds from unfriendly countries for the next year. Thus, the quota for seed potatoes will be 12 thousand tons, rapeseed - 2 thousand tons, sugar beet hybrids - 2.7 thousand tons (2 thousand tons in the first half of the year, 0.7 thousand in the second). This was reported by the Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut as part of the "Meetings on Ilyinka" series at the Trade and Industrial Chamber, her words are quoted by the Telegram channel of the Russian Grain Union (RGU). The minister also added that it is planned to leave the volumes of high-oleic hybrids for sunflower, only waxy corn for corn seeds, and there are also plans to leave the supply of malting barley seed. The volumes of import of these seeds, as RGU writes, were not specified during the meeting. A government decree with the size of quotas should be issued by the end of 2024. At the same time, the quota for sugar ...

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