Main world and Russian ameliorators arrived to Tatarstan

The President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Draining Dr.Said Nairizi and Director of the Amelioration Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Daniil Putyatin arrived to Kazan to participate in the exhibition “International Days of Field in the Volga Region” and the Congress “Entrepreneurship as the way to self-sufficiency of Russia”.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildus Gabdrakhmanov, Director of the FSBI “Tatmeliovodkhoz” Directorate” Mars Khismatullin and Director General of “Tatmelioratsia” Anvar Zalakov met the guests.

On June 24 the President of the International Commission on Amelioration and Graining and Head of the branch department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation will give a speech on the plenary session of the Congress, after that they will visit a number of big building and existing ameliorative venues of the republic.

On June 25 a meeting of Said Nairizi and the administration of the regional agro-industrial complex is planned, as well as a visit to Kazan State Agrarian University, where he will give a lecture to students, post-graduates and academic teaching staff devoted to “The role of amelioration in providing of the global food safety”.

Ameliorative branch plays a great social-economic role for the Republic of Tatarstan, and its developing experience could be in demand both for the country and the International Commission of Amelioration and Draining, the activity of which is to improve the provision of people with food worldwide through improvement of the management of water and land recourses, and increase of the productivity of irrigated and drained lands.

This way, for the last 4 years 320 hydraulic and erosion control structures have been constructed and reconstructed, 21.5 thousand ha of irrigated lands have been put into operation, about 800 artesian wells have been bored and over 600 km of pipelines have been laid.