Oleg Sirota: markets have been closed in cities, and retail chains do not want to work with farmers
"Cows can't be 'turned off'. Where to put our products?! Although it is necessary now for our citizens. Winning relations of chain stores, which simplified everything for farmers and take everything in a row – is not true, said Sirota. – Now they communicate with us even worse, they don't even respond to requests. Problems with seeding resources are becoming more acute. Many manufacturers of equipment and agricultural machinery are now closed. And they need to send equipment and teams for repairs, and even between regions. There are problems with interrupting supply chains, for example, in Kaluga, a cardboard factory is closed, and there they make packaging for milk. This is not an agricultural producer, but we cannot work without them".
The head of the All-Russian national front “National farmer” asked to shift all obligations and terms of development for grants received by farmers, obligations to create jobs, gross production, etc., to transfer reporting, since farmers cannot, violating the regime, go to the regional Ministry of agriculture. Farmers urgently need short soft loans and an increase in the limit of microfinance funds to 10 million rubles.
Sirota drew the attention of the Ministry of agriculture to the problem with arrears: if farmers use the right to defer taxes, they will not be able to receive subsidies and preferential loans. At the same time, it is impossible to get certificates from the tax service at the moment - they are closed.
Oleg Sirota also said that farmers could report problems in an open chat in Telegram: All-Russian national front “National farmer”.