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The share of insured vineyards in Russia does not exceed 10%, while most plantings are under threat due to weather events. This was reported to TASS by the first deputy chairman of the board of JSC Rosselkhozbank Irina Zhachkina within the framework of the international forum "World Quality Day".

Rosselkhoznadzor has stopped an attempt to illegally import 180 tons of "sanctioned" pears of European origin from Kazakhstan to Russia, the agency reported.

This year, the apple harvest in the commercial sector may be at the level of 2023, when, according to official statistics, 1.7 million tons of apples were harvested, Igor Mukhanin, President of the Russian Gardeners Association, told Agroinvestor. After the spring frosts, there were concerns that the central zone of the country would be left without apples, he recalled. “Now we see a slightly different picture. The Ministry of Agriculture predicts a reduction in the total harvest by 5-10%, but, according to our data, the harvest will remain approximately at last year’s level,” the expert noted. At the Bioprom international forum, which was held in the first half of October, Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut announced a forecast for the apple harvest in 2024 at 1.6 million tons, emphasizing that the situation with commercial apples in the country is stable. At the same time, in June the Ministry of Agriculture gave a lower estimate of the harvest - 1.5 million tons. Last week at a government meeting, the head of the agricultural department said that, despite the spring frosts, the organized sector is bu