Marat Akhmetov: Monetary revenue for farmers in the first half of the year increased by 13% and reached 45 billion rubles
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov reported on the results of livestock production and economic indicators for the first half of 2019,at a meeting in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan today.
The meeting in the form of video conferencing was held by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. First Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan Rustam Nigmatullin took part in the work.
Marat Akhmetov reported that for 6 months of the current year the republic produced gross agricultural output of 93 billion rubles. Compared with the same period last year, there is an increase of 2%.
The cash income of farmers in the first half of the year increased by 13% and reached 45 billion rubles. Livestock products brought agricultural entities 35 billion rubles: 14 billion - milk, 19 billion - meat of livestock and poultry, 2.4 billion - the sale of eggs.
“High growth rates of cash proceeds in animal husbandry were achieved due to systematic work in the regions. Tukayevsky district has sold livestock products for 8.4 billion rubles, Laishevsky - 2.3 billion, Zelenodolsky - also 2.3 billion. Pestrechinsky and Kukmorsky districts have got almost 1.5 billion rubles. Sabinsky, Buinsky, Baltasinsky districts earned 1.3 billion rubles each. Also, high growth rates were noted in Atninsky, Aktanyshsky and Arsky districts, ”the minister said.
As for natural production volumes, 931 thousand tons of milk were produced in all categories of farms, 264 thousand tons of livestock and poultry were grown.
Full text of the speech:http://agro.tatarstan.ru/rus/file/pub/pub_1964710.pdf
Full video of the speech:http://agro.tatarstan.ru/rus/press/video.htm/video/5442747.htm