Marat Akhmetov: It is necessary to intensify work on organizing the marketing of population products and the development of cooperatives
On August 19, in the Tukaevsky district, a zonal seminar-meeting was held to increase the business activity of the villagers. The participants of the event were heads of districts and rural settlements, heads of private farms, family farms and agricultural cooperatives from 14 regions of the republic. The meeting with farmers was the final in a series of zonal meetings in August this year, the first three were held in the Tyulyachinsky, Aksubaevsky and Zelenodolsky districts. This year, as part of the seminars, a new project of grant support for novice farmers and agricultural cooperatives, Agrostartup, was launched. In addition, a Memorandum on the creation of the international scientific and production cluster “Applied Biotechnology for Agriculture” was signed.
Tukaevsky district for the meeting was not chosen by chance. The region is considered to be the leader in the production of gross agricultural products in the republic - it accounts for about 15% of the total volume only for agricultural enterprises and peasant farms. District farmers and agricultural enterprises produce more than 39% of poultry meat and 61% of pork.
The meeting participants visited a seed plant, farms of Minnekhuzina, Minekhanov, Khanova, as well as the company TMIM, which is engaged in the supply of fan cooling towers.
Seed Plant named after Kurmashev is engaged in the procurement of seeds of 15 types of crops. Now the plant is in high season, a summer laboratory is working, in which the seeds are tested for quality and germination. The seed plant was commissioned in 2012. The plant is capable of processing more than 600 tons of seeds per day.
The farm of Maria Minnekhuzina is one of the largest in the region. The area of arable land is 2433 hectares. Maria Nikolaevna sows cereals, both spring and winter. The farmer also holds 247 heads of cattle (50 dairy cows, 1,413 sheep and 53 horses). Gross milk yield is 144 tons, milk yield per 1 cow - 3 358 kg. Every day, the farm has 1.5 tons of milk (30 kg per cow). Recently, Minnekhuzina brought 126 heifers of Holstein breed from Hungary.
Mintalip Minekhanov heads the Unity agricultural consumer supply and marketing cooperative in the village of Starye Yerykly. The cooperative was formed three years ago, and today it includes about 20 leaders of private household plots. The cooperative is engaged in the cultivation and processing of vegetables and potatoes. Last year, thanks to state support, machinery and equipment were purchased, a workshop for washing, packing and selling agricultural products with an area of 1,500 sq.m was built. There are also 2 potato storages with a total area of 3 thousand square meters.
The IKORM cooperative of the village of New Musabay, headed by Aigul Khanova, has 17 members - heads of private farms. The cooperative produces feed for farm animals and poultry. By the support program for start-up cooperatives, Aigul Renatovna received a grant in the amount of 5 million rubles for the purchase of equipment for the preparation of animal feed.
“The relevance of such meetings does not decrease, although there are positive changes with sufficiently large state support of private household plots,” Farid Mukhametshin emphasized, opening the plenary session, “yes, today 54% of the agricultural production falls to private plots and private farmsteads, but there are still large reserves for development ".
More than 2 billion rubles are allocated annually to support small business forms (private household farms, peasant farms, private farmsteads) in the republic, almost 1.4 billion rubles of which are grant support and 566 million rubles are various subsidies to private household plots. By last year, support grew by more than half a billion rubles. As a result, cash proceeds from the sale of livestock products increased by almost 30%. Over 5 years, over 1800 mini-farms have been built, including 257 this year.
Farms annually increase gross output by 15-20%. “If only every 15th farmer was engaged in livestock farming two decades ago, now there are much more of them,” said the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov, “thanks to grant support programs, the number of farmers in all livestock species doubled (excluding pig breeding), poultry almost tripled, cash proceeds from the sale of livestock products tripled, this year we’re going with an increase of almost 30%. ”
This year the competitions were held, 135 peasant farms received grants. According to the announced projects, it is planned to increase the number of cows by 2.4 thousand, cattle, poultry - over 1.5 million heads. An additional 340 jobs will be created. “This is almost a mini-factory,” the head of the ministry said.
As Marat Akhmetov emphasized, today it is necessary to significantly strengthen the work of organizing the marketing of population products and the development of cooperatives. The first steps in this direction have been taken. By the federal program, 4 cooperatives worth 88 million rubles have already received grants; the second stage of the competition is underway. The republican program for supporting start-up cooperatives has been running for the second year; 16 cooperatives worth 75 million rubles won grants this year.
The honorary President of the Association of Peasant Farms and Agricultural Consumer Cooperatives of Russia Vladimir Bashmachnikov became a participant in today's seminar. “Thirty years have passed since the beginning of the farm reform,” he noted, “now in Russia there are about half a million farmers, 150-170 thousands of them are officially registered, the rest are private farmsteads, but they get half the profit from their farms from the sale of their products. Russian farmers produce about 30 million tons of grain. For twenty years in a row, the dairy herd has been growing in the farming sector by 10-12% annually”.
The Russian farming movement, according to Vladimir Bashmachnikov, largely studies and takes as a basis the experience of Tatarstan. “You have a difficult task - to bring the ideas of farmers' cooperation to the federal level,” said Farid Mukhametshin, “but this needs to be done.”
Traditionally, the plenary session continued in the question-answer mode. All issues raised by the heads of peasant farms and private household plots, private farmsteads, are taken into account.