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Russia should overtake New Zealand in exports of venison, says Alexei Chekunkov, head of the Ministry for the Development of the Far East. "I noticed that New Zealand is overtaking the Russian Federation in the export of venison. We believe that this is wrong. We will fight for victory," he told reporters on Tuesday in Naryan-Mar during a working trip to the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO).

The head of the region, Yuri Bezdudny, said that in 2022, with the support of the Ministry for the Development of the Far East, three new production bases for reindeer farms in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug were created. “It is thanks to the support of the ministry <…> that this year we managed to set up three production bases for reindeer herders. And this means to ease their hard work,” the governor said.

The production base is a complex of modular buildings designed for livestock accounting, zootechnical activities, deer slaughter, cooling and storage of deer carcasses and their products, autonomous power sources, as well as a room for temporary residence. "I think that all the processes here are organized effectively," Chekunkov told journalists.

Reindeer support

As part of the implementation of the state program, it is planned to conclude an agreement between the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the administration of the NAO on the allocation of federal funding in the amount of 64.8 million rubles for the implementation of activities in 2023-2025. The total amount of financing will be 89.3 million rubles. It is planned to purchase and modernize slaughterhouses, supply a reindeer breeding products processing shop, and provide reindeer breeding organizations with snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.

As TASS was told in the press service of the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in 2021 an agreement was signed between the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the administration of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug on the allocation of federal funding in the amount of 79.5 million rubles for the creation in 2022 of production bases on the nomadic route of reindeer breeding farms of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The total amount of financing amounted to 118.6 million rubles. Production bases were created for the agricultural production cooperative (SPK) "Voskhod" in the village of Oma, the SPK "Nenets community "Kanin" in the village of Nes and the family tribal community "Yamb to" in the area of ​​Lake Vatyarty. A workshop for processing and processing skins was also created deer in the village of Nelmin Nos.

The only region of Russia that has the right to export venison to the EU countries is the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO). The Nenets Autonomous Okrug produces venison for the consumers of the region, and also sends it to other regions of Russia. As explained to TASS in the press service of the governor of the district, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug does not have a certificate of the EU countries for reindeer breeding products.

Economic activity of the indigenous peoples

A meeting was held in Naryan-Mar, the main theme of which was support for the activities of the indigenous peoples of the North. The Minister noted that this is a cultural heritage, and in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug much attention is paid to the preservation of the traditional way of life of reindeer herders. "The programs launched by our ministry to support the economic activities of the indigenous peoples of the North are beneficial. But in development we will already work out solutions together so that they bring even more benefits, so that there are concrete results and an increase in the well-being of the northerners themselves and an increase in output," he added. He.

Another project that was discussed during the minister's trip is the reconstruction of greenhouses. “We have new points of contact, this concerns the project for the reconstruction of greenhouses,” said Bezdudny. “We have been approaching this project for a long time and we understand that it is financially capacious. tomatoes and cucumbers."