MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. Russian winemakers produced 16 million decaliters (dal) of wine products in three months of 2024, said Irina Fedina, Deputy head of the department of food and processing industry at the Russian Agriculture Ministry.
"Last year, 60 million deciliters of wine products were produced. Thanks to the fact that the last two years there was a good, even very good grape harvest - 880,000-890,000 tons - this year, in three months alone, 16 million deciliters of wine products were produced," she said at the grand opening of the spring stage of the All-Russian event Russian Wine Days.
She noted that the Russian wine industry has shown good growth rates in recent years. In particular, the area of vineyards in the country now exceeds 105,000 hectares.
"Last year, winegrowers and winemakers planted more than 6,000 hectares of new vineyards, and this year we plan not to reduce such turnover. We also believe that this year, the area of planting new vineyards will be almost 6,000 hectares," Fedina said.
She also noted that the Agriculture Ministry together with the regions, annually provides support to winegrowers and winemakers as part of a specially created federal project.
"Other support measures are also available to vineyards and winemakers as part of the state agricultural development program," she said.