In 2025, the agricultural campaign in the Nizhny Novgorod region will require 11.7 billion rubles, calculated by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Oleg Grigoryev during a meeting of the regional legislative assembly's committee on the agro-industrial complex. According to him, a third of the total costs, which is 4 billion rubles, will be spent on the purchase of mineral fertilizers. Another 2 billion rubles (20% of the total costs) will go towards plant protection products. The remaining amount, 4.6 billion rubles, will be allocated for the acquisition of fuel and lubricants, new agricultural machinery, and spare parts. Mr. Grigoryev emphasized that 1 billion rubles is planned to be allocated for the purchase of seeds.
Agricultural producers expect that their own expenses for sowing campaign will amount to 4.4 billion rubles. In addition, it is planned to attract short-term loans in the amount of 4.5 billion rubles within the preferential financing program. State support for the agricultural campaign will amount to 2.8 billion rubles, of which 2.1 billion rubles will be allocated from the regional budget, and 700 million rubles will come from the federal treasury.
In 2025, farmers will need to grow 1.5 million tons of grain crops, as well as 31.5 thousand tons of vegetables, 408 thousand tons of potatoes, and 37.1 thousand tons of oilseeds. It is also planned to obtain 324.6 thousand tons of sugar beets, but the region is only provided with 17% of the seeds for this crop. Additionally, domestic varieties are not quite suitable for the Nizhny Novgorod region, so it will be necessary to import seeds. "There were issues with their delivery due to quotas. By early April, we had not fully determined the volume of sugar beets we plan to sow, we lacked around 4.5 thousand planting units. This problem is currently being resolved," emphasized Oleg Grigoryev.
As reported in the newspaper "Kommersant Volga Region", in 2024, agricultural workers in the Nizhny Novgorod region harvested 1.6 million tons of grain, while in 2023, they set record figures at 2.2 million tons, which, due to export restrictions and low prices, led to losses for farmers.