Speaking at a regional party forum Alexander Ishchenko also stressed that such and such performance was achieved at the expense of the legislative innovations adopted by the legislative Assembly of the region.

"In particular, the law on the development of agricultural consumer cooperation. It aims to bring farmers to solve various tasks from the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, farm equipment to sell their products and create facilities for its storage and processing. Thanks to the law on the territory of the region has created 45 such cooperatives. In addition, now without auction of land plots can now receive and Cossack society," he explained.

"Party project "Russian village" is also intended to protect the interests of all agricultural producers and residents of rural areas. And since a third of the population live in rural areas, the project is paramount Total consolidated budget expenditures for agriculture over the five years amounted to 36,6 billion roubles, Of which almost 31 billion rubles to support agricultural production," — said Ishchenko.

According to him, over the past five years largely increased support don livestock — almost in 2,5 times: from 279,7 million RUB, million RUB to 681,5 "Growers, in total, received over 9 billion rubles of budget support. In agriculture is almost 10 billion rubles of subsidies for compensation of part of expenses for payment of percent on the credits. With government support don farmers purchased about 4.5 thousand units of agricultural machinery", — said the speaker of the don Parliament.

Because of the current support measures, according to Ishchenko, managed to increase the volume of agricultural production in almost all areas. In particular, the production of grain in the Rostov region has almost doubled — from 6.1 in 2012 to 13.4 million tonnes in 2017-th, which is a record for the don region.