64 million rubles will be allocated to support bakers in Bashkiria

In 2022, 64 million rubles will be allocated to support the enterprises of the baking industry in Bashkiria, which is 8 million rubles more than a year earlier. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister of the region - Minister of Agriculture Ilshat Fazrakhmanov. According to him, such measures will help curb the rise in prices for bread and bakery products in the republic.

Subsidies for bakers were approved in the amount of 2.5 thousand rubles per ton of produced and sold bread or bakery products (with a shelf life of up to five days). Last year, the amount of the subsidy was 2.2 thousand rubles per ton (including 2 thousand reimbursed from the federal budget). Companies that receive compensation will have to comply with price fixing requirements for their products.

“The main strategic raw material for the production of bread and bakery products is grain, from which FLOUR and bread are made. We produce enough of it, usually in a year and a half. Therefore, there are no prerequisites for the growth of grain prices. And the growth of other costs for bakery will help to prevent subsidies for bakers, which we will soon begin to pay. That is why we should not expect an increase in bread prices this year,” Fazrakhmanov said.

In 2022, the federal budget allocated 2.5 billion rubles to Russian regions to support bakers, and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed the corresponding order on March 18.

As RBC Ufa reported, in 2021 Bashkiria received 60.5 million rubles from the country's budget for subsidies to flour milling and baking enterprises. Millers from the federal treasury were allocated 22.4 million rubles to compensate for part of the costs of purchasing wheat, 38.1 million rubles were distributed among bakers to partially reimburse the costs of selling bread.