PSB and Soyuzsotspit agreed to jointly develop infrastructure and tools for financial support of social nutrition. This was reported by the bank’s press service.
The agreement document was signed by PSB deputy chairman Konstantin Basmanov and director of the ANO Industrial Association for the Development of Social Nutrition Vladimir Chernigov.
As Basmanov noted, social nutrition is an important tool in achieving the goals of the national project “Demography”, in particular supporting the population and, above all, families with children. Therefore, he emphasized that the relevant attitude and active support of all participants in the process is needed, as well as the need for concrete steps to attract private investors.
“According to our estimates, more than 100 billion rubles will be needed in the next decade, which will ensure the development of the social nutrition system in Russia. “Especially providing financing for re-equipping or overhauling food units in educational institutions, creating modern technology and logistics chains, building production centers and other measures,” he said.
According to him, today such plans can only be implemented using the mechanism of offset contracts, public-private partnerships, concessions, life cycle contracts and other tools.
“The agreement with Soyuzsotspit will be a new stage in both the implementation of measures to improve social nutrition and in solving the problems of attracting new participants in this important socio-economic sphere,” Basmanov said.
As part of the agreement, the parties plan to help develop and implement state and regional programs to improve the organization of hot meals in educational institutions, and will also take part in the development and implementation of new technologies and the establishment of effective interaction between them. all participants in the process as well as other initiatives.