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Today, the Ministry held a seminar titled "Artificial Intelligence: Practical Skills for Working with Data, Regulatory Acts, and Documents." The seminar was attended by Marat Zyabbarov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, deputy ministers, and department heads. The seminar was led by Pavel Korchagin, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Systems Engineering at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and Innopolis University.

Today, a working meeting with a delegation from the Republic of Turkey was held at the Ministry, chaired by Lenar Garipov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan. Also participating in the meeting were Dmitry Yashin, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Aidar Zaripov, Commercial Director of JSC RACIN.

A delegation from the Republic of Tatarstan, led by Marat Zyabbarov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, paid a working visit to the Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow.

In 2026, the regional stage of the "Women in Agriculture" competition will be held again in Tatarstan.

Today in Moscow, Tatarstan's Rais Rustam Minnikhanov met with Sergei Dankvert, Head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance. Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov also participated in the meeting.

The village of Salmachi near Kazan became the site of a historic event: here, in a private garden, a cucumber was grown whose length has been officially recognized as a Russian record. This remarkable achievement was recorded by experts of the INTERRECORD International Record Registration System and added to the Russian Register of Records.

The All-Russian "Russian Rural Bakers' Cup" competition is held by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture as part of the "Integrated Rural Development" state program.

Spring agricultural fairs have concluded in the Republic of Tatarstan. They were held at 14 venues in Kazan, two venues in Naberezhnye Chelny and the Zelenodolsk district, and three venues in the Nizhnekamsk district.

A congress of gardeners from the Republic of Tatarstan was held today at the Kazan Agro-Industrial Park. Participants included Ilya Slesarsky, Chairman of the Board of the Union of Gardeners of the Republic of Tatarstan; Rustem Gainullov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan; Nazip Khazipov, Deputy Chairman of the State Council Committee on Ecology, Nature Management, Agro-Industrial and Food Policy; and gardeners from the republic.

Today, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan held a meeting on the preparation and implementation of spring sowing in the constituent entities of the Volga Federal District. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Andrey Razin. At the event, attended by heads of agricultural management bodies and relevant services, farmers' readiness for the spring sowing campaign and the achievement of planned targets were discussed.