In wholesale trade comes "Rosprodset"

USDA has begun to establish a network of production and logistics centers food "Rosprodset."

first agro park network will be built in St. Petersburg. Its area will be 407 hectares, and the turnover of up to 3.25 million tons per year . Different segments of the pilot project implemented due to budgetary or private investment , as well as in the newly created public-private partnerships .

Similar regional projects appeared earlier , but so far none has been implemented on a scale comparable to a pilot project in the northern capital , and most of them remained on paper .

ordered the formation of an interagency working group , which will build the network , signed by the Minister Nikolai Fyodorov . Led a group of deputy Ilya Shestakov . The Working Group will also have to develop recommendations to the federal executive authorities to improve the regulatory framework in the field of trade and food storage .

The Ministry of Agriculture said that the project will raise to a qualitatively new level of agricultural market infrastructure and establish a system of wholesale food trade. On a single site will be collected manufacturers , wholesale and retail trade in food products . Here will be based services and Rospotrebnadzora Rosselkhoznadzor .

« Rosprodset " should not only be a tool of antitrust regulation in the market of perishable goods , but also a form of support for small and medium businesses, improve the competitiveness of Russian producers in the WTO .