Grain interventions, despite the promises of the authorities, at the turn of 2017-2018 in Russia has not been carried out. Moreover, not satisfied even the "point" purchases that are expected the most affected by the crisis of overproduction of the regions. About the situation on the grain market, writes the editor of IA REGNUM Svetlana Shapovalova.

To regulate the internal market mechanism is used interventions that autumn, after the mass flow of the harvest to the market and falling prices, the government buys grain from producers to support them. In autumn and spring harvest is sold to keep prices down. However, in the current win-win situation for grain traders income earning on the price difference in domestic and global markets, which got to the same subsidies for grain transportation. Farmers well ahead of sowing, according to Deputy Minister of agriculture of Russia Ivan Lebedev, will get unbound from the state support and concessional lending. And with the soft loan is also not simple, it requires not to defer payments to banks for the money already received under the yield 2017. And sell crops many had below cost.

Until the spring of last year the grain market once organized themselves on their own solving the issues of production, marketing and processing of crops grown. But the facts are more like whether the consequences of irresponsible and delayed actions of the authorities, whether for political provocation before March 2018.