Putin makes changes to composition of council for implementing Federal Scientific and Technical Program for agricultural development
MOSCOW. Oct 16 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has made changes to the composition of the council for implementing the Federal Scientific and Technical Program (FSTP) for agriculture, with the corresponding decree signed on October 15, 2025, and published on the official portal of legal information.
Included in the council are the deputy head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), Svetlana Alexeyeva, the executive director of the Union of Grain Exporters, Kseniya Bolomatova, and the rector of Oryol State Agrarian University, Vladimir Masalov.
Rosselkhoznadzor head Sergei Dankvert, the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' All-Russian Scientific Research and Technological Institute of Poultry Farming Dmitry Efimov, the acting rector of Michurinsky State Agrarian University Sergei Zhidkov, and a board member of the Union of Grain Exporters and board chairman of the agricultural corporation Bio-Ton, Eduard Zernin, were excluded from the council.
The document also indicates the new position of Maxim Kolesnikov as first deputy economic development minister (previously, he was deputy economic development minister).
The FSTP for agricultural development has been in effect in Russia since 2017. Initially, it was designed to last until 2025, but at the end of 2021, it was extended until 2030 at the proposal of the president. It includes 13 subprograms.
The lead scientific organization of the FSTP, in accordance with the Russian president's decree, is the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center.
An agreement on cooperation in scientific and technical support for agricultural development was signed between the Agriculture Ministry and the Kurchatov Institute in December 2022.
As reported, the program may be supplemented by two subprograms - Agricultural Machinery and Equipment and Development of Technologies for the Production of Veterinary Medicinal Products. The draft of the corresponding government resolution was prepared by the Agriculture Ministry.
