Benefits for farmers for the transportation of fish and grain ended in two months

The Ministry of Agriculture has stopped accepting applications from agricultural producers for preferential rail transportation of grain, fish and fish products, including pollock, pink salmon, sardine and mackerel. The annual limits on it ended in two months of 2025, Izvestia found out.

So, with the grain transportation plan in the amount of 1.92 million tons, by February 26, the balance was 15.4 tons. With a transportation limit of 70 thousand tons for fish and fish products, 10.6 tons remained for the same period. In 2024, approximately such residues were recorded only by September.

The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the termination of applications. At the same time, they noted that in 2025, about 8.3 billion rubles were allocated from the federal budget to support preferential transportation, which is 2 billion rubles more than a year earlier.

"According to the distribution of available volumes indicated on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, transportation by rail at a discounted rate of about 2 million tons of grain crops and 70 thousand tons of fish is planned for 2025. At the moment, the ministry has approved applications for the entire specified volume, and therefore the acceptance of new applications has been suspended," the ministry said.

Representatives of the fishing industry and agriculture are already concerned about the situation.

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We have reached the limit: the benefits for the transportation of grain and fish have ended in two months