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.  

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.

The final spring agricultural fair will be held on April 25 at 14 sites in Kazan, 2 platforms in Naberezhnye Chelny, 2 sites of Zelenodolsk municipal district, and 2 sites in Nizhnekamsk.