On May 16, Kazan hosted the solemn closing of the on-site regional stage of the All-Russian Competition AgroNTI-2019, which was held at Kazan State Agrarian University with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan. The competition was held among students of rural schools of 5-11 grades . About 200 students from 43 regions of Tatarstan, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Perm Territory and the Ulyanovsk Region took part in the competition.
During two days, schoolchildren carried out an intensive work on training and demonstration sites, computer classes and laboratories of the university in the areas of AgroCopters, AgroRobots, Agrocosmos and AgroMeteo.
As a result of the intense struggle for the best solutions to the actual problems of introducing digital technologies and robotization, the use of UAVs, the use of space and meteotechnologies in agriculture, the winners were finally determined. They were 24 students of rural educational institutions from the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Perm Territory and 11 regions of Tatarstan: Alekseevsky, Almetyevsky, Muslyumovsky, Zainsky, Sabinsky, Arsky, Agryzsky, Kukmorsky, Sarmanovsky, Leninogorsky and Baltasinsky districts.
The final will be held in two cities: Belgorod and Almetyevsk from August 30 to September 6. The winners of the final stage will have the opportunity to take part in a specialized site of the Russian agro-industrial exhibition “Golden Autumn 2019” and will receive valuable prizes.