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

Russia
Published Sep 1, 2022

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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 normative 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.

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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 ...
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