Regional Decree No. 561-PP validating Regional State Program “Developing of fisheries, agriculture and regulation of markets of agricultural commodities, raw materials and foodstuffs”.

Regional State Program “Developing of fisheries, agriculture and regulation of markets of agricultural commodities, raw materials and foodstuffs” is a regional policy document with the scope of providing regional population with agricultural commodities and foodstuffs of local production, ensuring safety of products of animal origin and epizootic well-being on the regional territory, and creation of the conditions for sustainable development of the regional fishing industry. The Program shall pursue the following objectives: (a) increasing the competitiveness of agricultural products and locally produced foodstuffs on the regional market; (b) stimulation of modernization and renewal of material and technical base for functioning of agricultural production; (c) setting up small business entities in rural areas; (d) improvement of living conditions of the rural population; (e) prevention of the emergence and spread of contagious animal diseases, sale of poor quality and dangerous animal food products; (f) ensuring the rational use of aquatic biological resources in the coastal zone and fresh waterbodies; (g) creating conditions for more effective fisheries and fish-processing organizations; and (h) creating conditions for accelerated development of aquaculture. Expected results: (a) increase index of agricultural production in all categories up to 100.3%; (b) increase production volume of frozen ашыр fillet by coastal processing enterprises of the Murmansk Region up to 12.8 thousand tons; (с) increase the volume of commercial aquaculture production over the years of the state program implementation up to 19.4 thousand tons; and (d) ensure absence of cases of human diseases from animal products subject to veterinary and sanitary supervision.