Marat Zyabbarov: “Thanks to national projects, we can improve the quality of life in rural areas and make it more comfortable”
Today, the Kukmorsky district took up the baton of the bus marathon “Tatarstan – Republic of Achievements”. Until March 1, he will visit 29 districts of the republic. Today, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov took part in its work.
He noted that the Ministry is implementing 2 national projects: “International cooperation and export” and “Small and medium-sized businesses and support for individual entrepreneurial initiatives.”
As part of the first, in the direction of reclamation, the construction and reconstruction of irrigation and drainage systems is being carried out, as well as the involvement of land in circulation through cultural and technical measures (uprooting). Since 2019, under this project, 5082 hectares of irrigated land have been put into operation, woody vegetation has been cleared on an area of 1688 hectares, and measures have been taken to drain wetlands on an area of 520 hectares.
A total of 1.1 billion rubles investments, of which the state reimbursed 625.2 million ruble, have been raised since the start of the project..
In the direction of “Export of agricultural products”, the performance indicator at the end of 2023 was also exceeded and in absolute terms amounted to 458.6 million US dollars (at current prices). Compared to 2019, exports of agricultural products of the Republic of Tatarstan increased by 2.4 times.
Since 2019, the federal project “Acceleration of Small and Medium Enterprises” has been implemented in the Republic of Tatarstan, within the framework of which state support measures for agricultural producers are carried out on the principles of co-financing (81% from the budget of the Russian Federation, 19% from the budget of the Republic of Tatarstan, 10% of farmers’ own funds).
One of these is “Agrostartup” grant support for starting the activities of aspiring entrepreneurs.
For these purposes, from 2019 to 2023, 971.7 million rubles were allocated, including 49.9 million rubles in 2023. In addition, 10% of farmers’ own funds were allocated for the implementation of projects.
“Over the past 5 years, 489 jobs have been created by peasant farms within the framework of the Agrostartup grant. Also, due to grant support, the cattle population increased by 8887 heads, including 3576 cows, horses - by 500 heads, poultry - by 146.2 thousand heads, sheep - by 2812 heads,” noted Marat Zyabbarov.
The second direction is subsidies to agricultural consumer cooperatives and processors to reimburse costs incurred associated with the acquisition of property, machinery, equipment and the purchase of agricultural products.
Thanks to this support, since 2019, 82 cooperatives have received subsidies totaling 805.5 million rubles, including 74 cooperatives in the amount of 352.4 million rubles in 2023. 21 units of agricultural machinery, 32 units of specialized vehicles, 54 units of equipment for processing agricultural products, 285 heads of young cattle, 332 heads of heifers, 462 thousand heads of poultry, 384 thousand strawberry seedlings were purchased.
He also noted that for the current year the amount of funding for the federal project “Acceleration of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” is 364.2 million rubles, of which 148.6 million rubles for the Agrostartup project, and 215.6 million rubles for subsidies to agricultural consumer cooperatives and processors.
Tomorrow the Arsky municipal district will host the bus marathon.