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According to Russia's Federal Tax Service, in the first quarter of 2015 the number of farming entrepreneurs grew by 4,670 compared with 3,000 for all of 2014.

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Yelena Shcherbakova, who has a poultry farm in the Altai region, registered as an individual entrepreneur on July 15.

“My main goal is to apply for the Ministry of Agriculture's Beginning Farmer grant,” Shcherbakova said.

“For us it is a chance to get funds from the government to help purchase items we cannot afford – expensive incubators, including industrial ones, which can cost as much as 540,000 rubles.”

Farming has become a potentially profitable business thanks to the current embargo on foreign foodstuffs and demand from Russian consumers had increased.

“The food embargo made room for Russian entrepreneurs on the shelves of major supermarkets,” says Mikhail Nikolayev, managing partner of the company Nikolayev and Sons and the winery Lefkadia.

“Demand for Russian products has grown dramatically since the introduction of sanctions in the summer of last year,” he says, adding that Russian demand for Russian cheese has doubled to 40% percent of the market this year.

Meanwhile, in Poland...

Polish Farmers protest in Warsaw, protesting Farm Policy and demanding Compensation; EU Average Pork Price per Kilo drops almost in half.
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