On February 12-13, 2019, the First All-Russian Olympiad of Executive Directors of Agricultural Consumer Cooperatives 2019 will take place in Kazan. “The center of competence for the development of agricultural cooperation in the Republic of Tatarstan” organizes it within the framework of the annual board of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Republic of Tatarstan.
Anyone from all over Russia aged from 22 to 55 years who has a referral from either one agricultural consumer cooperative or five peasant (farmer) farms (individual entrepreneurs in the field of agro-industrial complex) can take part in the competition. The educational operator organizing the main competitive procedures is the Kazan Cooperative Institute (branch) of the Russian University of Cooperation.
The purpose of the event is the development of the institute of executive management in rural cooperation as the main “catalyst” of integration processes in farming. The event is organized under instructions from the President of Republic of Tatarstan for activating some informational and educational activities in the field of agriculture. Those instructions were signed on the basis of zonal seminars and meetings held in Tatarstan in the end of 2018.
The competition commission (jury of the Olympiad) will consist of interregional experts of cooperation under the leadership of AO Corporation for SME Development. Users who have connected to the corresponding Internet resource remotely will be able to take part in evaluation of one of competitive tasks. Information on how to connect to the online broadcast of the competition and participate in the Olympiad can be found at http://cooperator.eduterra.pro/mgmt/course/~pYCa