The Ministry of Agriculture in Russia will set a quota for the import of seeds

Published Aug 31, 2022

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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture is proposing a quota system for the import of seeds for several agricultural crops until the end of 2022, in response to dependence on foreign seeds and restrictions on agricultural product imports from 'unfriendly states'. The proposed system would set volumes and ban imports from the USA, EU, Canada, Australia, Norway, Ukraine, Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The ministry is collaborating with the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Economic Development to manage the quotas. This step is part of a strategy to reduce reliance on imported seeds and focus on breeder training to increase domestic production.

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The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation proposes to establish a quota for the import of seeds of potatoes, sunflower, wheat and meslin, rye, barley, corn, soybeans, rapeseed and sugar beets. According to the draft law published on the portal of regulatory legal acts, the measure will be valid until the end of 2022. As stated in the comments to the document, in recent years there has been a high dependence on the import of foreign seeds. “In the context of the establishment of restrictions by unfriendly states on the import of certain types of agricultural products into the territory of the Russian Federation, it is proposed to establish a mechanism for quoting the import of imported seeds into the territory of the Russian Federation,” the authors of the law explain. The volume of imports will be set by the Ministry of Agriculture together with the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Economic Development. It is proposed to prohibit the import of ...

Source: Milknews