Opening the meeting, Alexey Gordeev told about the tasks this year, including on the state program of complex development of rural territories. The document should be finalized and submitted until 1 June 2019, the government of the Russian Federation.
Agriculture Minister of Russia Dmitry Patrushev stressed the importance of the program. It will be a defining stage in the life of the Russian village. Its activities are designed to increase employment and rural incomes, to create a comfortable and environmentally friendly living conditions in rural areas, to improve the accessibility of public services.

The agricultural Bank as a reference Bank APK pays special attention to providing the population of rural areas with quality financial services. On 01.03.2019 retail credit portfolio of Rosselkhozbank in this segment was is 198.5 billion. The most popular among the borrowers of consumer and mortgage lending.

"Half of the retail loan portfolio of Russian agricultural Bank accounts for villagers. For the rural population, those with their hands on the ground and feeds us, city dwellers, the Bank maintains offices, even in the most remote areas. By the end of 2018, the volume of mortgage loans to residents of rural areas and small towns increased by 45%, to 27.6 billion rubles, the mortgage loan portfolio amounted to 65 billion rubles. We help people to buy new housing and equipment, creating a new quality of life in rural areas", - said at the end of the session, the Chairman of the Board of JSC "Rosselkhozbank" Boris Leaves.

JSC "Rosselhozbank" is the basis of national credit and financial service system of agroindustrial complex of Russia. The Bank was founded in 2000 and today is a key lender to the agriculture of the country, is among the largest and most stable banks in the country in terms of assets and capital, as well as the leaders of a reliability rating of the largest Russian banks.