Belarus will facilitate the revival of Russian COTTON
In the Lower Volga region will revive the cotton industry, and help domestic farmers in the difficult task of PPP could Belarus.
In the course of the forum `The Future of Textile and Light Industry Department deputy director of Russia` timber and light industry Oleg Kascheev summarized the results of the experiment on the cultivation of cotton in the Astrakhan region, conducted this summer. On the profitability of cotton ahead of the traditional culture of the region - watermelons. In addition, the local cotton quality is not inferior to the Central Asian.
According Kashcheeva, `by the PPP in the short term - at least in 2020 - it will be possible to speak of import substitution in the sector #39;.
Meanwhile, cost-effective Astrakhan cotton, according to the Agricultural Committee of the Astrakhan Regional Duma (2011), will only yield not less than 12 kg / ha and application of modern cleaning equipment. Its acquisition need 25-30 million.
Consumers Astrakhan #39;white gold#39; can become textile enterprises Ivanovo region and Belarus. They may be co-investors of the project under PPP, according to the committee, which is sure to revive the cotton industry in the Astrakhan region.
We recall that since 2009 discussed options for the participation of Belarus in the textile processing and cultivation of cotton in the Astrakhan PPP. In Astrakhan Region has 15-year operating time for growing cotton, which can receive and Belarusian consumers. According to the head of the Krasnodar branch of the Belarusian Embassy in the Russian Federation Stanislav Matukov, this project is `very interesting and promising #39;.
The regional governor Alexander Zhilkin said that `already sent an appeal to the country with the proposal to create a special federal program because the Russian Cotton initially need state support #39;.
As explained by the `` RWB president of the Russian Union of Textile and Light Industry Boris Fomin, the restoration of Lower Volga cotton, directive #39;interrupted#39; in the 60s, will benefit both domestic cotton prices, and providing refiners hlopkosyrem. The implementation of such a program, according to B. Fomin instrumental in PPP at `home` support from the state.
