Turkish eggs, local chicken shortages and record potato harvest

At the same time, a number of regions faced a shortage of chicken MEAT during the New Year holidays; in particular, the media wrote that it was not on store shelves in Yekaterinburg, Samara, Chelyabinsk, and Ulyanovsk. Local authorities reported that there were no problems with the supply of chicken to the regions. The press service of the X5 Group (retail chains Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, Chizhik) clarified to RBC that delays in the supply of chilled poultry to Russian regions in the first days of January were caused by frost and snowfall. The supply schedule will be restored in the near future, the retailer assured. An RBC source in another retail chain added that there is no shortage of chicken meat, and such situations periodically arise during the holidays.

The next auction for the sale of the production complex of the Kursk-based Greenhouse Complex Agropark LLC did not take place due to a lack of applications. The initial price was 1.59 billion rubles. Bidding was announced in November 2023, previous auctions were cancelled. Agropark began operating in 2015. The company invested 2.2 billion rubles. into greenhouses with an area of ​​over 10 hectares and a capacity of 6.6 thousand tons of products per year. However, in the fall of 2022, the COURT declared the company bankrupt and introduced bankruptcy proceedings. At the end of 2022, the greenhouse complex resumed operation - it was rented by the Eco-Culture agricultural holding.

The Arbitration Court of the Kursk Region completed bankruptcy proceedings in Belaya Ptitsa-Kursk LLC, the main local production legal entity of the former Belaya Ptitsa poultry holding. The Federal Tax Service proposed completing the procedure. In July 2021, a structure of the Cherkizovo group - Lipetsk JSC Chicken Kingdom - became the only bidder for the sale of the property of Belaya Bird - Kursk LLC, which at that time was pledged to another Cherkizovo structure - Vasilyevskaya Poultry Farm. . The company received a property complex for 5.36 billion rubles.

The Ministry of Agriculture  reported that potato production in the commercial sector at the end of 2023 amounted to 8.6 million tons - 18% more than a year earlier, which was the highest figure in the last 30 years. The largest harvests were collected by farmers in the Bryansk, Tula, Moscow, Astrakhan and Nizhny Novgorod regions. The department believes that this is the result of the implementation of the federal project “Development of vegetable and potato growing.” Last year, 4.6 billion rubles were allocated to support the sector. - almost twice as much as in 2022.

At the same time, the ministry also recalled that from 2024 , subsidies to support agricultural production for individual sub-sectors of crop and livestock production and subsidies to stimulate the development of priority sub-sectors will be combined . Among the 12 priority areas of state support are carrying out agrotechnological work, increasing fertility, soil quality and the level of environmental safety of agricultural production, elite seed farming, livestock breeding, production of fruit and berry plantations and MILK, development of small forms of farming, agricultural insurance, etc. For the regions will be determined eight priority areas: five are set by default for all regions, three more are determined by the subjects independently.

TASS, citing the Ministry of Agriculture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, reported that this year the region plans to launch the country's largest plant for the production of juices and nectars. The Krastekhstroy company is investing 4.2 billion rubles in the project. The enterprise will produce 396 thousand tons of products per year. It is planned that the products of the new plant will occupy 20% of the domestic market.