Today, the agricultural fair, organized on the territory of the Kazan agricultural park, was visited by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin. He was accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov.
This year, the agricultural trade fairs in Tatarstan started on September 14 and will last until December 28. In Kazan, trade is carried out at 15 sites, in Naberezhnye Chelny and Zelenodolsk district there are 2 sites allocated for fairs.
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan examined the malls, got acquainted with the assortment of products and talked with sellers. In the agricultural park “Kazan”, fairs are organized by agricultural producers of Alkeevsky, Sabinsky, Nurlatsky, Aksubaevsky, Arsky and Kukmorsky districts, as well as a number of republican investors and farmers.
Today, 55 tons of potatoes and vegetables, 7.3 tons of beef meat, 2.8 tons of pork meat, 1.2 tons of poultry meat, 7.2 tons of draft milk, 1.1 tons of hard cheese, 400 kg of cream butter, 6 tons of granulated sugar, 9.8 tons of flour, 5.2 tons of various cereals, 50 tons of grain, more than 30 thousand eggs and 1.8 tons of honey were delivered to the trading platform.
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Tatarstan said that following the results of last year, products totaling 1.3 billion rubles were imported to republican fairs. In 2019, taking into account spring fairs, the import of products amounted to 737 million rubles. By the end of the year, 9 more events are planned.