Vladimir Putin allowed farmers and individual entrepreneurs to sell products on their agricultural lands
The document was developed by the government as part of the implementation of the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation following the meeting on the situation in agriculture and the food industry. The law provides farmers and agricultural consumer cooperatives with the opportunity to sell agricultural products of their own production on the lands they use. It will be possible to sell them only in specially equipped premises of buildings and facilities that are part of the property of such people, or in non-stationary retail facilities. Moreover, the placement of non-stationary commercial objects is allowed only on lands that do not belong to farmland, and if the soil layer is not disturbed.
Thus, the placement of non-stationary retail outlets directly on arable land and deposits, hayfields, pastures, lands occupied by perennial plantings (orchards, vineyards, berry fields, etc.) is prohibited. It will be impossible to put shopping malls directly on a plowed field, but a tent, where farm products will be sold, may well appear next to arable land, explained Vladimir Gruzdev, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, to RIA Novosti.
In addition, according to him, it will be possible to organize trade in buildings and facilities that are already part of the farm: for example, milk can be sold directly on the farm. The law should come into force 10 days after its official publication.