In Tatarstan, the first million tons of grain of a new crop was threshed. According to current data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, as of August 16, grain and leguminous crops were threshed from 336.3 thousand ha in the republic, which is 23.7% of the harvesting area.

Today, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov visited the Alekseevsky, Cheremshansky and Aksubaevsky districts in order to get acquainted with the harvesting process.

On August 15, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov, got acquainted with the activities of the meat processing complex Kausar in the Laishevsky District.

As soon as after a long inclement weather the soil began to dry up, the collective farm of the Aksubaevsky region brought their combines to the fields. In this farm, crops occupy 2900 hectares. Including: 200 hectares of winter rye, wheat, vetch, 400 hectares of barley, 600 ha of spring wheat and 1300 ha of oats.