The start of the competition was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food Marat Zyabbarov on August 1 at a meeting in the House of Government of the Republic.
The competition is held in order to increase the prestige and popularize the profession, encourage grain growers, as well as for the prompt and high-quality harvesting, effective use of the fleet of harvesting equipment in the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Tatarstan.
This year, the competition committee of the Ministry will determine 200 winners at the republican and regional levels in terms of the largest threshing capacity and the largest mowing area in the Republic of Tatarstan. This year, just as in previous years, a republican competition of combine operators for a grant from the President of the Republic of Tatarstan will be held, 200 prizes of 100 thousand rubles each have been established.
For the competition to be fair, the equipment is divided into groups by capacity. There are 4 groups in total. The first includes combines from 140 to 230 horsepower, the second - from 230 to 290 horsepower, the third - from 300 to 326 horsepower, and the fourth - from 351 to 530 horsepower.
The group of self-propelled mowers includes McDon, Challenger, John Deere, New Holland, Massey Fergusson, EC-1, KSU-1, CS-200.
In the first group, the leaders are the combine operators of Drozhzhanovsky and Kaibitsky districts - Almaz Nizamov and Fanis Shaikhattarov from the farm “Nizamov AA”, Ilsur Valiev LLC “Tugan yak - Agro”.
In the second group, the top three are the combine operators of the Alkeyevsky and Aksubaevsky districts - Rafis Nasybullin JSC Vostok Zernoprodukt, Jaudat Safiullin LLC Aksu Agro and Anatoly Krasnov LLC Khuzangaevskoe.
In the third group there are combine operators of the farm "Suleimanov A.I." of Nurlat district - Rafis Nyamaev, Rishat Gafurov and Ilgiz Andarzyanov.
In the last group, there are the combine operators of Agrosila JSC of the Zainsk region: Ildus Fatkhullin, Maxim Tazov and Damir Shaigardanov.
To identify the best combine operators of the republic, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan conducts constant monitoring, according to which, today 1139 combine operators take part in the competition for threshing and 114 for mowing of grain.