Food Security Issues

The rise in prices for goods and some shortages that have appeared recently was discussed in the course of the meeting chaired by the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. All this is due to external restrictions. Pridnestrovie cannot influence the current situation. The logistics of their delivery is urgently changing in order to bring the goods necessary for the republic today. New suppliers offer other conditions, less favorable, which affect the final, higher price of the goods. State regulation of import pricing is limited at the same time. However, the President added, it is important that the buyer has the opportunity to choose. Locally produced goods will be an alternative, while imports will be only an addition to them. Vadim Krasnoselsky considers that this is what a self-sufficient state should strive for.

According to the press service of the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, attention at the meeting was paid to long-term plans for the development of the country's economy among other things. An important role is assigned to the agro-industrial complex. The priority should be filling the domestic market. Pridnestrovian agrarians understand this. Therefore, more and more farms working in the republic are striving to create full-cycle production facilities, minimizing their dependence on suppliers.

The President called the self-sufficiency of our state a strategic task. Vadim Krasnoselsky voiced this topic in his annual Address to the state authorities and administration. It is necessary to create conditions for import substitution in the republic that requires new approaches to the efficient use of land, he considers. So, as part of the fulfillment of the tasks of the PMR President and to support the agro-industrial complex, the Supreme Council adopted a state program for the development of land reclamation in December 2021.

Pridnestrovie has both the conditions and resources to achieve a level of economic self-sufficiency, says the head of the parliamentary committee on economic policy Viktor Guzun. Thus, widespread reclamation will stimulate agricultural producers to grow more vegetables and fruits. This is especially important in the current conditions.

Returning to the issue of pricing, the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic recalled that state regulation can be fully discussed when it comes to domestic products. The state offers preferential loans, subsidies, subsidies, favorable tariffs for energy resources and water, and the development of an reclamation complex to support socially significant goods of local producers. The use of these tools should be effective, the PMR President considers. Vadim Krasnoselsky noted that today it is necessary to take all possible measures to maintain prices for socially significant food products. At the same time, to review their list to keep affordable prices for essential products and at the same time protect manufacturers from overwhelming burdens and losses.

According to the press service of the PMR President