“Farmer School” in Tatarstan graduated 40 aspiring farmers
The fourth stage of the federal educational project “Farmer School” has completed in Tatarstan. 40 graduates received a state diploma on professional retraining. In Tatarstan, the project is being implemented by Rosselkhozbank jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the republic on the basis of the Kazan State Agrarian University. In just three years, 144 specialists in the field of agro-industrial complex were trained.
The closing ceremony of the “Farmer School” was attended by the director of the Tatarstan regional branch of Rosselkhozbank Lyalya Kudermetova, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Gainullov, the vice-rector for educational work and youth policy of the Kazan State Agrarian University Andrey Dmitriev.
For three months, participants in the “Farmer School” studied the following specialties: “Rural agrotourism” and “Technology for processing crop and livestock products.” During the training, students also acquired skills in business planning, taxation and promoting their products on the market. The students consolidated their theoretical knowledge in practice with leading farmers of Tatarstan.
“Today, competition in the agricultural sector is so high that professional growth is becoming a vital necessity for small farms. The Farmer’s School project is an excellent help in this matter,” noted Rustem Gainullov.
“Farmer School” is an all-Russian educational project of Rosselkhozbank, which provides the opportunity for free in-depth training in the field of agriculture or to start learning the profession of a farmer from scratch. The project is being implemented jointly with the Russian Ministry of Agriculture in 85 regions, on the basis of the country's leading universities. In total, more than 5,000 students from all over the country received education in the agricultural sector as part of the project.