The Competence Center for Agricultural Cooperation of the Novgorod Region has provided 13,000 consultations to farmers over 5 years

The Competence Center in the field of agricultural cooperation and support for farmers provides information, advisory, educational and methodological services to small and medium-sized businesses within the framework of state agricultural policy.
Over the five years of the national project, the Center provided 12,930 consultations, prepared 126 events - from educational to representative, 22 training seminars, 42 guidelines, 7 information resources, 2000 information and analytical materials.
“Our job is to help farmers at all stages of doing business, to assist in the implementation of innovative projects in the agricultural sector. it is very important to identify the needs of our applicants and find an individual approach to solving difficulties,” said Ignat Potapov, DIRECTOR of the ANO Center for Consulting and Innovation of the Agro-Industrial Complex.
Let us remind you that the Competence Center in the field of agricultural cooperation and support for farmers helps citizens, individual entrepreneurs and organizations create and develop their business in the field of agriculture. The work of the Center is carried out within the framework of the implementation of the federal project “Acceleration of Small and Medium Enterprises” and the national project “Small and Medium Enterprises and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiatives”.
Let us add that farmers can use information platforms. The boxed solution “Future Farmer’s Kit” is available on the official website of the Center for Consulting and Innovation of the Agro-Industrial Complex. In this section, farmers can find all the necessary information to start their own agribusiness and receive government support. The website has a digital service URM 2.0. The digital service URM 2.0 is an opportunity for farmers on the official website to submit an application in areas of economic activity to receive the necessary related services from partner organizations (credit, insurance, purchase of machinery, equipment, fertilizers), with which a cooperation agreement has been signed with the Center. In 2023, an agreement was signed with 34 partner organizations in 13 areas.
In 2023, the Agrobot chatbot was created in the TELEGRAM messenger. Agrobot continuously informs and advises citizens and agricultural producers in the region, and popularizes the agricultural sector among young people. Here you can get information about products and services for financial and non-financial support of the Competence Center: “Novgorod Hectare”, “Future Farmer Set”, digital service “URM 2.0.”, marketplace “Farmer.53”, subsidies and grants.