GENERAL REVIEW OF THE ALTAI REPUBLIC'S ECONOMY
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Agricultural production prevails in the structure of the total social product of the Republic. The share of agricultural production in the Altai Republic is the following in the scale of Russia: milk - 0,18%, meat - 0,3%, wool - 1,4%, goat down - 6,5%, maral and deer antlers - 75%.
The Republic took the first positions upon production of maral antlers, goat down and sheep wool not o要ly in Russia, but in NIS as well. Industry of the Altai Republic is presented by such branches as food, light, of building materials, mining, of non-ferrous metals.
The following types of production are manufactured by republican enterprises (according to the branches):
- food industry (bread and bakery, sausage products and smoked foods, cheese, butter, canned fruits and vegetables, different wines and soft drinks);
- light industry (cotton fabric, curtain and tulle fabric, shoes, clothes and other sewing articles);
- industry of building materials (prefabricated ferroconcrete structures, brick, facing slabs of granite and marble);
- forest and wood-working industry (murchantable wood, lumber, jointer's articles, furniture, various souvenirs);
- non-ferrous metallurgy (mercury, gold, silver, tungsten-molybdenum concentrate, jewelry).
Agriculture
Occupies the leading place in national economic complex of the Altai Republic. Live-stock raising (sheep, goats, cattle, horses, yaks) is the man branch of agriculture, antler sika-deer-raising is of special significance. This branch gives unique production, which has no analogues in the world according to quality - maral and sika-deer antlers.
At the present time total number of marals in the Altai Republic has exceeded 27 thousand, and total number of sika-deers has reached 8 thousand. Being the main export production and providing currency receipts to the Republic, antler production is of great demand at the South-Eastern Asia markets.
Since ancient times the Altaians have been occupied with sheep-breeding. Sheep are bred in 7 regions of the Republic. Total number of them of all the farms categories exceeds 300 thousand. In 1959 the Gornoaltaiskaya pedigree group of sheep of semifined-fleeced trend was raised and approved. A leading pedigree sheep-breeding farm is EPF "Tenginskoye".
A domestic breed of downy goats - Gornoaltaiskaya o要e - was raised in the Republic after many-year pedigree work. This breed is distinguished by high productivity (560 g of down combing from each sheep) and downy fibers output (95% and more). The basic farm is the pedigree-plant and collective farm "Mukhor-Tarkhata". The sheep total number of all the Republic's farms categories exceeds 100 thousand.
Herd horse-breeding is the traditional branch of live-stock raising. A great work upon raising of the Altaian breed of horses of productive direction is being carried out. Total number of horses of all the farms categories exceeds 70 thousand.
Bee-keeping is a traditional branch of the Altai taiga inhabitants. Hundreds of tons of sweet-scented honey are produced annually by Altai bee-keepers. The mountain honey surpasses the steppe o要e according to its flavor and medical qualities.
Gardening started in Siberia in the middle of XX century at the small experimental station in Gorno-Altaisk , today it is EPF "Gorno-Altaiskoye". The founder of the station and its permanent manager for a long time was M.A.Lisavenko. Today the selectionists of Altai offer customers dozens of new sorts of apple-trees, pear-trees, plum-trees, cherry-trees, sea-buckthorn trees, goose-berry bushes, currant bushes, raspberry-canes, strawberry.
Power Engineering.
One of the main deterrents of social and economic development of the Altai Republic is a low level of electrification and shortage of fuel and energy resources, consisting at the present time of wood of local origin, imported oil products and coil, electric power received from outside.
The basis of the own power engineering system of the Altai Republic is the Tchemal Hydroelectric Power station (HPS) built in the 30-s o要 the Katun River, small low-power HPSes and about 400 small mobile stations and electric installations.
Annual electric power consumption per head in the Altai Republic is 2.6 times less than that in Altai Region and 4 times less than upon the average in the Russian Federation.
Tourism.
The unique natural and climatic conditions create wide opportunities for development of almost all types of tourism. The presence of significant historical and archeological monuments of the Universal heritage attract the international public at large to the Republic.
Several dozens of highly comfortable tourist centers and recreational bases function o要 the territory of the Altai Republic. Among them are "Kiwi-Lodge", "Tsar Hunting", "Edem", "Katun", "The Golden Lake", "Yunost", "Kucherla", training center "Seminsky Pass".
Small and Medium Business of the Altai Republic
About 6 thousand small- and medium-business enterprises and over 4 thousand entrepreneurs not forming a juridical person function in the Altai Republic.
Tax receipts from the subjects of small-scale entrepreneurship to the budgets of all the levels constituted 83.5 mln. roubles or 39.6 % of tax income total volume.
Contribution of small enterprises to the Republic's economy is determined by the following indices: share of production manufactured by small enterprises in total volume of industrial production - 49.2%; share of civil engineering work in total volume of civil engineering and erection work- 75%; share of small enterprises retail turnover in goods turnover - 83%; 85% of personal services is carried out by small enterprises.
The majority of small enterprises (46,8%) and individual entrepreneurs (71,3%) not forming a juridical person are concentrated in Gorno-Altaisk, Maiminsky and Tchoisky Regions.
Investment Policy Committee of the Altai Republic
It was created and functions o要 the Republic's territory. Additional privileges for foreign and domestic investors are granted by the Government of the Republic for the purpose of organization and expansion of joint activity types and attraction of investments to the region. |
