The validity of the emergency regime has not yet been agreed.
The Minister of Agriculture of Russia Oksana Lut said that due to abnormally strong May frosts, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation plans to introduce the federal emergency regime, the correspondent of The Moscow Post reports.
According to the minister, the department has already appealed to the Russian government with a request to compensate for the damage from frosts.
Note that frosts greatly influenced fruit trees, especially apple trees in the central regions.
“We will import apples, look for opportunities for imports, even from the southern regions, if production is not injured there,” she added.
Lut also commented on the situation with the prices of strawberries, indicating that frosts did not affect it, but skewing with its cost is observed. In her opinion, in June she will be adjusted.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, it is necessary to cross the dead and damaged agricultural cultures by 900 thousand hectares due to frosts that hit ten regions of Russia.