Russia agricultural meltdown as farm machinery production collapses | World | News
Russia’s agricultural sector embraces a steep decline in the production of farm machines and collapsing cereal plants. The couple coup is the last of a series of indigenous crisis that the Kremlin faced during the conflict with Ukraine when the Russian war economy began to flag.
The latest data shows that the production of agricultural machinery decreased by 27% in 2025 because farmers see that they cannot get new equipment. Russia’s largest farm machine manufacturer was particularly forced with the sharp regression requested. Rostselmash saw a large 76% of the sales of combined harvestors, 49% of feed harvestors, and 48% of the January-April-April-January-Nisan 2025.
The company was forced to pass a short period of time in a four -day working week in March before laying 2,000 workers in April. Later, in June, the company tried to reduce all of its 15,000 employees without permission for the whole month.
“Farmers do not have money to buy the equipment they need, and as a result the market has shrunk to a great extent.” He said.
The Company also reported a decrease of 130% to 6.9 billion rubles (64.4 million £) in net revenue last year. The total income fell by approximately 20 billion rubles in 2024 78.3 billion (£ 731 million).
“Rostselmash continues to monitor changes in the agricultural machine market.” He said.
Russia’s grain harvest also collapses mainly due to excessive air caused by global warming.
The 2025 harvest is in danger of disappearing up to 25% of the cereal crop, with the worst of the years.
United spring frosts were damaged by more than 240,000 hectares of crops, lost 100,000 hectares. These were followed by record summer temperature with temperatures above 40 ° C in the southern regions.
This summer drought conditions were destroyed, about 500,000 hectares were destroyed.
The total grain output, which peaked to 158 million tons in 2022, is currently expected to fall to approximately 130 million tons.
