Over 97 million rubles will be received by Lipetsk agricultural cooperatives as part of the national project in 2023

State support will be provided in three areas: for the purchase of agricultural products from members of the cooperative, for the purchase of agricultural machinery, equipment and for the purchase of property for members of the cooperative.
Already at the end of April, agricultural consumer cooperatives of the Lipetsk region will receive the first part of state support within the framework of the national project "Small and medium-sized businesses and support for individual entrepreneurial initiatives." These will be subsidies.for the purchase of agricultural products from members of the cooperative and the purchase of open ground vegetables, potatoes, MILK and MEAT from self-employed citizens who run personal subsidiary farms, but are not members of this cooperative. According to the results of the selection, which took place in April this year, 17 agricultural cooperatives from 10 districts will receive from 36 thousand to 7.2 million rubles. In total, 28.8 million rubles are provided for this direction.
In 2022, the volume of agricultural products purchased by cooperatives amounted to 9.2 billion rubles (an increase of 18% compared to 2021), the volume of food production amounted to 8.7 billion rubles (an increase of 47% compared to 2021). In the structure of purchased agricultural products, the volume of production of private farms amounted to 1.4 billion rubles (15%).
For the 5th year, the region has been participating in the implementation of measures to support the development of cooperation within the framework of the regional project "Acceleration of small and medium-sized businesses", which contributes to the achievement of the goals, indicators and results of the federal project "Acceleration of small and medium-sized businesses" of the national project "Small and medium entrepreneurship and support of individual entrepreneurial initiative”. In 2023, the volume of state support provided to agricultural consumer cooperatives under this regional project will amount to 97 million rubles.