The Rosselkhoznadzor has denied entry to Kaliningrad party French tomatoes from the Netherlands. About TASS reported on Friday, the press service of the regional administration.

Batch weight 540 kg was stopped at the point "Bagrationovsk" on the border of the Kaliningrad region and Poland. Products are shipped from the Netherlands, grown in France. Its import is prohibited, the entire shipment returned to the exporting country, explained in the office.

In the Kaliningrad region after the introduction of an embargo on the import of food from a number of countries, including the EU, practically solved the problem of changing food providers. Shortages of essential products in the trade network, according to regional authorities, is not observed.

Territory independently provided their needs for grain, pork and potatoes. At a high level, 75% of the region's endowment chicken eggs, specified in the regional Ministry of agriculture.

By 2020 it is planned to increase the security of the region's own milk to 82% (183,8 thousand tons), fruit and vegetables up to 70% due to the development of greenhouse production and capacity industrial areas gardens to 600 thousand hectares.

On the development of agro-industrial complex in the area annually for three years the regional budget allocates 1 billion.