Zabaykalsky Krai is not involved in the Federal project to export milk to China, stated in response to the request of the newspaper gazetavechorka.ru in the regional Ministry of agriculture.

"The Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation in the framework of development of business cooperation between Russia and China is working to create the conditions for Russian exports of milk and dairy products. However, in Zabaykalsky Krai the order on the organization of Zabaykalsky participation of agricultural producers in this project have been reported," — said the officials.

The request was made after the Minister of agriculture of Russia Alexander Tkachev in an interview with TASS was informed about the registration completion in April 2018 Russian and Chinese enterprises having right to export dairy products to the neighboring country.

"Thus, the chance of Transbaikalian peasants to somehow improve their financial situation and standard of living through the sale of milk is almost zero. But the TRANS — border region," — noted in Zabaykalsky colleagues.

We will remind, in the message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin has set the task to make the Russian food exports in four years exceeded imports. To facilitate this Federal program is called "Export agriculture", which envisages the possibility of granting Russian companies subsidies from Federal budget for compensation of part of costs associated with the certification and homologation of products in foreign markets.

TRANS-Baikal territory could participate in the project, the package according to the regional Ministry of agriculture, in 2017 in all categories of farms of the Baikal region was produced 334,2 tons of milk, which corresponds to the 7th place among 12 regions of the Siberian Federal district.

The highest milk production was in the agricultural district of Nerchinsk (1248 tons, or 118,9%) and peasant (farm) Karymsky district (1235,4 tons or 120,5%).