The Ministry discussed the development of horse breeding in the Republic of Tatarstan
Today, the Ministry held a meeting on the development of horse breeding and equestrian sports chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov.
The event was also attended by Deputy Minister Gelyus Bayazitov, head of the horse breeding department of the Horse Breeding and Equestrian Sports Federation of the Republic of Tatarstan Airat Khabibullin, head of the department for the development of small farms of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexander Molokin, director of Kazan Hippodrome LLC Vladimir Zhukovsky and rector of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Kazan State Academy of Veterinary Medicine named after N.E. Bauman Rustam Ravilov.
Vladimir Zhukovsky spoke about the work of the Kazan Hippodrome and its tasks for the current year.
In his speech, Airat Khabibullin spoke about the events held in horse breeding. They discussed in more detail the organization of the races for the "Cup of the Head" and the annual Kumys festival, the festival and ring-show of the Orlov and Tatar breeds, the organization of cooperatives for the processing and production of horse breeding products.
Alexander Molokin spoke about the measures of state support for small farms.
"Today, private household plots contain 13 thousand, and peasant farms 10 thousand heads of horses. For farmers, there is a grant support of up to 20 million rubles for the development of family farms, the "Agrostartup" program up to 3 million rubles, and private household plots can receive subsidies for the maintenance of mares over 3 years old at the rate of 5 thousand rubles per head. Small enterprises for increasing the added value of their products are united into cooperatives, which in turn can receive grant support for start-up and continuing cooperatives, as well as subsidies within the framework of the federal project "Acceleration of small and medium-sized businesses" of the national project "Small and medium-sized businesses", noted Alexander Molokin.
Vice-Rector for educational and training work of the Kazan Veterinary Academy Lenar Zagidullin spoke about the possibilities of targeted training of horse breeding specialists and work with students of the academy.
"Today, with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, we were able to repair the buildings for student practice. Thanks to this, an additional opportunity has appeared to train horse breeding specialists, and to send students for practice on farms and at the racetrack," noted Lenar Zagidullin.
The head of the Department of Biology, Genetics and Animal Breeding of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kazan State Veterinary Medical Academy named after N.E. Bauman" Ilnur Kamaltdinov.
"The purpose of the breeding center is to create a digital electronic database of Tatar horses. Since 2021, after receiving the status of a breeding reproducer, OOO "Breeding Reproductor named after S.Giniatullin" has been carrying out targeted work. By the end of the year, it is planned to license 3 more farms, where horse chipping, grading and genotyping have been carried out to date, forms for organized breeding records have been prepared. Genotyping of horses is carried out in order to reliably determine the origin of Tatar horses. For this purpose, blood samples were taken from stallions, mares and foals at the base farms. This makes it possible to prevent horses that differ significantly in origin from Tatar horses from being bred and will consolidate heredity," said Ilnur Kamaltdinov.
During the discussion, horse owners presented their proposals for the development of small farms, sports and productive horse breeding, as an industry as a whole.
In conclusion, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov outlined the tasks for horse breeding and equestrian sports.