How will the rise in food prices in the world affect farmers themselves?

According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the country, the profitability of grain production almost halved last year. RUSSIA is the largest exporter of wheat in the world, but the additional funds from rising food prices that our farmers could receive will not reach them. The money, taking into account the current situation, will be mainly divided between exporters, logisticians, ports and grain duty recipients. Agricultural producers , apparently, will not receive significant additional income .

The situation can change only if the lower threshold for calculating the grain duty is adjusted: from the current 17 to 18.5-19.5 rubles per kilogram of soft wheat, with a corresponding adjustment in the calculation for other crops. Or the duty should be abolished altogether. Obviously, the second option is not possible in this fiscal year. To do this, it is necessary to find additional sources of funds for the federal budget, which are currently not available. But an adjustment could have saved the day.

According to agrarians, a special article should be singled out in the program of preferential investment loans - "Acquisition of agricultural machinery." Cleaning

up nowlegumes in the Stavropol Territory and in general in the south of Russia. The battle for the harvest this year really looks like a real battle. By July 20, only 14 percent of the area under wheat had been harvested in Russia. A year ago on the same date it was 22 percent. Due to the delay in harvesting, the yield and quality of cereals are reduced. This is due both to weather conditions and to the growing technological lag in the grain industry: the purchase of agricultural machinery in the Stavropol Territory has halved in two years. The statistics for the country are about the same.

In the opinion of our agrarians, a special article "Acquisition of agricultural machinery" should have been singled out in the program of preferential investment loans for a long time. Preferential short-term and investment loans are the two main and vital tools to support agriculture that our country has.

In fact, only they have so far made it possible to produce that huge amount of food that we are proud of. The remaining investment wishes in the conditions of the emerging shortage of funds and the lack of specialists in the countryside can not be considered as a priority. The decision must be made immediately. Otherwise, problems with the availability of modern equipment for farmers may worsen by the next harvest.

In addition, the growing migration from the countryside to the city will become the main brake on the development of agriculture in the coming years. Farmers do not have the means to raise wages, as they can do at industrial enterprises with a shortage of specialists. According to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, further opportunities for growth in production in our economy are increasingly limited by the state of the labor market.

And when demand begins to steadily exceed supply, this inevitably results in rising prices. The price goes up when there is a shortage. Is it possible to raise wages for our grain producers? Obviously, farmers pay salaries from their incomes, which are limited by quotas and duties, and at current domestic grain prices in Russia, they cannot offer salaries higher than at industrial enterprises, in construction and transport.

What will happen next? Farms that do not have financial reserves will be forced to increase salaries in the hope that officials will pay attention to the situation and adjust prices in order to stop the beginning wave of bankruptcies in the agricultural sector.

Banbankruptcy acted until the first of August last year. Then the farmers hoped for a good harvest and prices in 2023, but in most regions, hopes will not come true. And then a new danger will appear: bankrupt enterprises will not be able to repay their debts to partners and banks, which means that a “domino effect” will arise when they pull others along with them.

Among the recent initiatives of the economic unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I would like to note an attempt to increase the share of insured crops in the country to 20 percent by limiting access to concessional lending. Our farmers openly call it a tax on the development of insurance companies. It is not spelled out in the Tax Code, is not approved by the State Duma and the country's leadership. Instead of creating a quality product for which the farmers will line up, officials are engaged in profanation, imitating the solution of the tasks set, jeopardizing the main thing: to produce more high-quality and affordable food for the population.

Moreover, they hit the sick - those who are in no hurry to insure themselves on unfavorable conditions, they want to limit access to the most effective measure of state support. It is to be hoped that decision makers will take note of this. After all, the adoption of such decisions will inevitably reduce lending in the agricultural sector of Russia and will harm not only agriculture, but also banks, as well as manufacturers of agricultural machinery, fuels and lubricants and fertilizers.

And finally: will all this affect prices in Russian stores? In the current agricultural year, if there will be an impact, it will be insignificant, because there are enough talented and hardworking people in the Russian agro-industrial complex who can and want to work for the good of Russia.