Vologda agricultural producers received the first subsidies this year

The Department of Agriculture and Food Resources sent financial support to enterprises of the agro-industrial complex and peasant (farm) enterprises of the region to prepare for the upcoming field season. The total amount of funds amounted to 459.4 million rubles. Subsidies for a complex of agrotechnological works are provided per 1 hectare of the current year’s sown area of ​​cereals, legumes, fodder crops and rapeseed. The money can be spent on the purchase of agrochemicals, mineral fertilizers, plant protection products, oil products used for technological purposes. The forecast for the sown area of ​​all agricultural crops, including perennial grasses of past years, is 334 thousand hectares, which is 0.7 thousand hectares more than last year. The main part of the preparatory work for the sowing campaign was completed by the farmers last autumn. Under u…