Anomalous heat caused the farmers in Chechnya damage almost 2 billion roubles, but despite this, the country has harvested 40 thousand tons more than the target indicator of the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation. About this on his page in social network "Vkontakte" announced the head of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov on the results of the meeting with the head of the Ministry of agriculture Musa Dadaev.

"In the early summer in 11 districts of the Chechen Republic in connection with the established abnormal high temperature regime was introduced emergency. The drought affected the crops of almost 12 thousand hectares. By results of work of the government Commission damage is estimated at 1 billion 900 million rubles. Despite natural phenomena, in Chechnya managed to collect 310 thousand tons of harvest, which is 40 thousand tons more than the target indicator of the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation", - wrote Kadyrov.

In 2017, the farmers of the Chechen Republic have collected 420 thousand tons of grain, which became the biggest harvest in the last 20 years. The record collection was able to obtain due to the increase in acreage and increased yield per hectare and engaging in agriculture private investment.