Russian Agriculture News

George1 wrote:Grain crops in Russia to be over 100 million tonnes

Question, Did Russia already maxed-out its total number of arable areas suitable for agriculture? or can they develop new agricultural areas somewhere within the country?

Project Canada wrote:

George1 wrote:Grain crops in Russia to be over 100 million tonnes

Question, Did Russia already maxed-out its total number of arable areas suitable for agriculture? or can they develop new agricultural areas somewhere within the country?

If you cross the border from Finland to Russia you can see that there are lots of fields that were used to agriculture in the Soviet period that are now unused. So at least in northwestern Russia there is more potential for agriculture.

sepheronx wrote:

Project Canada wrote:

George1 wrote:Grain crops in Russia to be over 100 million tonnes

Question, Did Russia already maxed-out its total number of arable areas suitable for agriculture? or can they develop new agricultural areas somewhere within the country?

Not even close. I read somewhere that Russia uses currently 40% of its arable land and hence why they have moved towards land lease with countries like North Korea and China. I imagine in the future, NK will be given extra amount of land lease land to cultivate for their demands, as NK needs it and extra money is good (as well as expanding cooperation with each other.

I don't think they're using even 40% of the arable land, most likely less because less land is being cultivated than in Soviet times, plus with the warming of the world climate we may end up seeing massive areas of tundra becoming arable land.

PapaDragon wrote:
Folks you gotta read this, content is even better than the title!

''Russian Exports Eroding US's Position as Top Dog in Global Wheat Sales

http://sputniknews.com/business/20150906/1026658558/russia-us-wheat-sales.html

Wow, U.S share of world grain market has been cut in half, damn.

http://www.naturalnews.com/051068_Russia_Agenda_21_self-sufficiency.html

Russian officials propose bill to grant every citizen one hectare of farm and forest land to use for self-sufficiency

The Pacific Rim of Russia could soon see a mass migration of young people if a government scheme to repopulate this largely uninhabited area is successful. In an effort to promote self-reliance and good land stewardship, the Russian government is planning to grant every Russian citizen who wants it one hectare of land for free as long as these landholders use their land for farming, self-sufficiency, and/or other legal uses.

Russia's vast Far East territory is currently home to about six million people, but this number has been waning in recent years. The Russian government estimates that once the land grant program is initiated, 30 million more people could flock to the region, infusing new life into an area of Russia that would otherwise qualify as uninhabited Siberia.

"Free land grants [are] a powerful potential for developing our Eastern territories and an opportunity to radically -- almost six fold -- increase the far eastern population from 6.4 million to 36 million people," stated Alexander Galushka, the minister of development for this region, to the Siberian Times about the program.

If everything goes as planned, the program will come into effect on January 1, 2016, and run for 19 years. Russian citizens who take residency on these appropriated land plots will have to prove during the first five years that they're using them properly. After this five-year probationary period, land occupants will be given full ownership of their land in perpetuity.

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sepheronx wrote:If only I was a Russian citizen.  I know my wife and her family did farming back home, and with our very small plot of land here, we do gardening.  If I had such amount of land, I would move, definitely, and plant fruit tree's as well as grow various vegetables and raspberry bushes.  I know we would take full advantage of the land.  Would build a decent dacha and garage for my work.

But of course, I can always dream.

If you seriously want to move to Russia I'm sure you can get the Russian citizenship rather easily since you have Russian background and know the language, and you are fairly young too. Isn't Russia trying to get this type of people moving to Russia from abroad?

Russian dairy production up 26% in year after food embargo – Putin

Monsanto won't like it, heh heh.

http://www.rt.com/politics/315844-government-decides-to-ban-gmo/

Govt decides to ban GMO food production in Russia – deputy PM

A senior Russian government member told reporters the cabinet decided that any food production in the country will completely exclude any genetically-modified organisms or parts thereof.

“As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions,” Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich said at an international conference on biotechnology in the Russian city of Kirov.

At the same time the official emphasized that there was a very clear line between this decision and the development of science, medicine and some other branches.

“This is not a simple issue, we must do very thorough work on division on these spheres and form a legal base on this foundation,” he said.

higurashihougi wrote:Monsanto won't like it, heh heh.

http://www.rt.com/politics/315844-government-decides-to-ban-gmo/

Govt decides to ban GMO food production in Russia – deputy PM

A senior Russian government member told reporters the cabinet decided that any food production in the country will completely exclude any genetically-modified organisms or parts thereof.

“As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions,” Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich said at an international conference on biotechnology in the Russian city of Kirov.

At the same time the official emphasized that there was a very clear line between this decision and the development of science, medicine and some other branches.

“This is not a simple issue, we must do very thorough work on division on these spheres and form a legal base on this foundation,” he said.

This is excellent decision. Russia will be able to sell their food for higher prices, because it is not GMO, but natural. Russia have a lot of space to produce more food and sell it around the World. Even US and EU will buy it to have healthy and natural food.

Russia has good soil but it does not have good climate. The winter is long and cold. Amount of rain is not extremely high.

Russian climate is good for cultivating wheat. Not too much rain enable Russia to manufacture the super super high grade white grain which is exported to France.

But it is not 100% suitable for things like vegetables, fruit trees, milk cow, due to f**king cold winter. Russia used to import fruits from Europe.

The issue here is that, Europe is not the only one can produce fruit. Russia's allies, like China, North Korea, Brasil. They have what Russia needs.

Another reason for Russia to turn East.

Just my 2 cent.

GarryB wrote:Actually it is rather worse than that....

Monsanto GM seeds produce plants that don't produce seed, so when you sign up for Monsanto seed you sign up to say you wont buy any other seed... you can't get see from the plants you grow so your only source of seed... is monsanto.

Another trick is that these GM crops have a genetic signature so any seed blows over the boundary of your field into the neighbours field and Monsanto will come a calling wanting payment for any seed that germinate... they can prove genetically it is theirs, you can't prove you didn't plant it yourself... sign or we will sue you. In other words sign up to buy only monsanto seed and grow monsanto crops ONLY or be made bankrupt in the courts.

even worse... imagine you start using monsanto seed and all your neighbours start using the same because that is the way the wind blows... what happens when the US decides to impose sanctions on your country for whatever reason? You can't buy the seed from anyone else and nothing else will now grow on your land...

Who would even consider this GM crap?

The issue here is that, Europe is not the only one can produce fruit. Russia's allies, like China, North Korea, Brasil. They have what Russia needs.

Another reason for Russia to turn East.

The issue is not who can grow what... the issue is who uses sanctions as a weapon and how do you protect yourself from that weapon... the answer is the one you arrived at above... China, Brazil, NK etc etc.

GMO's are the pinnacle of slavery. I do not know how people allow this to happen. It's the single most severe alteration of an Ecosystem. I do not know what mongrel of a mother has bred the generation of politicians that allow this crap, but she seems always pregnant to the throat.

Indians are already in full slavery of that Monsanto death seed, there is no other seeds for them to buy on the market,many people with disease because of their pestizid crap. The entire indian cotton plantages are all monsanto shit.

Werewolf wrote:Indians are already in full slavery of that Monsanto death seed, there is no other seeds for them to buy on the market,many people with disease because of their pestizid crap. The entire indian cotton plantages are all monsanto shit.

Monsanto can monopolize small and poor countries - India is on it's way to become a superpower and I oubt they will keep buying seeds from American company for long. The richer you are, the more you can do to protect yourself from foreign influene.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:

Werewolf wrote:Indians are already in full slavery of that Monsanto death seed, there is no other seeds for them to buy on the market,many people with disease because of their pestizid crap. The entire indian cotton plantages are all monsanto shit.

Monsanto can monopolize small and poor countries - India is on it's way to become a superpower and I oubt they will keep buying seeds from American company for long. The richer you are, the more you can do to protect yourself from foreign influene.

What the poor farmers gonna do with their unfertile land that is toxic from monsanto pestizides? You are speaking about the corrupt India that sits between to seats and has not shown any direct path it wants to approach, if you try to walk on two planks that are bridging a river but go into two directions, you will eventually fall into the river. India hasn't faced or shown any regards for their farmers and their economics in agriculture and the big harm this pestizides and GMO seeds do. I doubt they will care untill their farmers start to die off in large numbers due being financially destroyed not to mention the harm of farmers due the pestizides.

Werewolf wrote:What the poor farmers gonna do with their unfertile land that is toxic from monsanto pestizides? You are speaking about the corrupt India that sits between to seats and has not shown any direct path it wants to approach, if you try to walk on two planks that are bridging a river but go into two directions, you will eventually fall into the river. India hasn't faced or shown any regards for their farmers and their economics in agriculture and the big harm this pestizides and GMO seeds do. I doubt they will care untill their farmers start to die off in large numbers due being financially destroyed not to mention the harm of farmers due the pestizides.

Actually India has expressed a clear and strong Russification after 1991, when they began to have a chance to approach Russian military techs.

And we se a rapid Russification inside Indian Army: Su-30MKI became the bulk of air force, T-72/90 became the bulk of armoured force. AK-xx kicked the *** of INSAS. And Russian aircraft carriers, with navalized MiG-29. And the in-coming Indian T-50.

But that Russification disastisfied the corrupted, pro-West faction of Delhi. That faction is, unfortunately, is still considerable. That is the reason why we still have Arjun, Rafale, Jaitapur, AH-64.

Nonetheless most of these Western project are probably pie-in-the-sky, they were created to gain support from voters in various factions. You can see that in the case of Rafale, India didn't have a serious will to purchase them. And probably in the case of others, these pro-West project will end miserably.