Energy Consumption May Cost One His Post :: Charter'97 :: News

At the recent meeting of the Ministry of agriculture and foodstuffs the most acute issue in question was the fulfillment of current payments for energy resources by the agricultural organizations.

The situation in the sphere is far from ideal – over the past year the agricultural regions paid for the utilized electric energy only 87% of the total debt. Only the Brest husbandries fully paid the bill, while the rest only covered 50-78% of it.

According to the director of the Ministry’s technical progress department Sergei Tkachev, the husbandries mostly don’t pay for energy not because they lack means for that but simply because it already turned into a habit of theirs. For instance, all agricultural companies of the Dzerjinsk district receive around 40mln rubles a month for the produced milk, while energy consumption costs 10% times less – only 3,8mln. However, most of the husbandries don’t pay anyway.

The Ministry of agriculture ruled that by February 26 the heads of companies are obliged to clear off all indebtedness before the energy suppliers. Otherwise they will lose their posts.