Russian subsidies support self-sufficiency goals

To reach its forecast milk production targets, heavy investment is needed in Russia’s dairy sector. What measures are necessary to make self-sufficiency possible in this currently troubled sector? Russia will decrease milk imports by 29.9% or about 3.2 million tonnes by 2020, while by 2025 imports should drop by nearly 9 million tonnes making the country almost fully self-sufficient in milk produc tion. This is according to a special report by the country’s Agricultural Ministry. Dur