The governor, who holds the personal supervision of the situation with food prices in the region in terms of restrictions on the import of some goods from the European Union, the USA, Australia, Canada and Norway, held a working meeting on the measures undertaken to ensure a stable food supply of the Sakhalin region.
As Alexander Horoshavin currently on the market share of the island region imported products does not exceed 11% in certain groups of goods. And if we talk about imports from countries with respect to which the State applied prohibitive measures, the region has with them is very limited foreign trade turnover.
«I note that the situation in the region is stable. Food stocks, focusing on stocks, ranging from 24 days to 4 months. Deliveries of Russian regions are rhythmically. Our island business structure adequately responded to the new conditions. Now they are working to find new suppliers, expanding the geography of deliveries. In doing so, they need to support actively using inter-regional relations in the framework of agreements on cooperation “, – said the governor.
He added that the restrictive measures on the Russian market – is a good opportunity for local producers to increase production of its own agricultural products, ranking with the goods free niches. In the Sakhalin region in the framework of the state program on the development of agriculture and regulation of the markets of agricultural products, raw materials and food for 2014-2020 carried out a number of investment projects on construction of new cattle, pig and greenhouses, potato storage, the creation of broiler production.
«In the future, there are all prerequisites to increase the volume of domestic production. If we talk about the situation today, we provide ourselves with potatoes and eggs by 100%, vegetables by almost 76%. As for meat and dairy products, there is somewhat lower. But we can make up for this deficiency by supplies from other regions of Russia. You should also carefully examine the possibility of an accelerated implementation of the planned investment projects in our village. Particular attention is paid to ask questions of creation of broiler production. So that we can secure the release of up to 3 thousand. Tonnes of poultry meat per year, and it is about 8% of the increase in the volume of annual consumption of meat “, – said the head of the region.
According to him, for the formation of new contacts providers of food, substitutions dropdown headings requires experts estimate 2-3 months. The governor warned all players in the food market of unjustified price increases in this situation.
«I ask all the leaders of the authorized bodies of supervision and control to carefully check all the facts unjustified price increases and rapid action. Special attention to this draw chapters Antimonopoly Service, Federal Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Once again I repeat – the islanders do not have to feel the lack of food. Our task is to prevent the contraction and concealment of food supplies, excessive demand for food and unjustified price increases, “- said Alexander Horoshavin.
Following the meeting, the governor gave instructions to ensure the food security of the Sakhalin area. In particular, under his leadership, will set up a special working group, which will be engaged on a daily basis monitoring the situation with the prices. This process Alexander Horoshavin urged to involve the public as much as possible. Also at the regional level will be operational headquarters for monitoring and rapid response to changing conditions of food markets. The information in it will be, including the act and the heads of the areas that will lead to the local level like structures. Heads of municipalities, along with the regional Department of Agriculture, Trade and Food, in addition, requested to take measures to increase the volume of agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs. Alexander Horoshavin also set tasks to ensure the island market of local fish products in the required quantities, the study of the influence of food and pricing environment for the implementation of measures of social support in terms of ensuring adequate nutrition such as low-income populations pensioners, pregnant women and mothers with children up to 1 year . This was reported by the press service of the regional government.
«To further ensure food security of the Sakhalin area is necessary to build a clear system of cooperation between municipalities, state and federal executive bodies, the public and the public, business representatives to monitor the situation in real time. The work will be difficult, I ask all responsible to take it because of the timeliness and quality of our decisions will depend on the stability of the region’s economy and the well-being of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands “- the governor said, summing up the meeting.
No comments:
Post a Comment