The Ministry of Agriculture and food of the Republic of Tatarstan is 95

Today a weekly session headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov took place in the Ministry of Agriculture and food of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Deputy ministers, directors of structural subdivisions and subordinate enterprises of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan participated in the event.

During the session Marat Akhmetov noted that on September 26 2015 the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan was 95 years old.

The participants of the event watched a movie about the history of the Ministry, including pre-war, war and post-war times.

On May 27 1920 Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was founded and on September 26 1920 the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture was established. The first people’s commissar for agriculture became Yunus Validov.

In 1946 the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture was renamed into the Ministry of Agriculture.

The history of Russian and Tatarstan agriculture is not simple.

Today Tatarstan AIC is one of the most well developed in the Russian Federation.

“Those were hard times, when people had to survive and provide the population of the republic and Russia with agricultural products. Those were self-sacrificing people, who did not have modern machinery and equipment, but they did their best”, - shared his impressions Marat Akhmetov, having watched the movie.