Tatarstan farmers are getting ready for sowing campaign 2016

In AIC of the republic of Tatarstan during spring field works 2016 about 14,000 tractors, over 600 sowing machines, 6,400 rippers, 5,700 cultivators and over 1,000 multifunctional soil tilling machines will be used. All this machinery will enable to hold the sowing campaign within the reasonable agricultural time.

The department of AIC engineering and technical service at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan and the corresponding department of local directorates for agriculture and food have the task to provide technical readiness of sowing, soil tilling machines and tractors before April 1, 2016.

There are 700 repair workshops in Tatarstan, there are about 800 sites for repairing and maintenance of agricultural machinery, where about 3,000 skilled mechanizers and engineers work.

Taking into consideration that in enterprises there is quite a lot of import machinery and equipment, it is necessary to place orders for spear parts as soon as possible. Specialists of the ministry of agriculture and food of the republic of Tatarstan keep track of spear parts supplies and timely maintenance of machinery in agricultural enterprises.

According to the recent data, as of today, agricultural enterprises of the republic have purchased spear parts at the amount of 440 million rubles (30% of the needs).

It is planned to spend about 3 billion rubles for maintenance to prepare machinery and equipment for field works 2016, including expenditures for the sowing campaign – about 1.5 billion rubles.

Maintenance and repairing are being carried out in Aktanysh, Atnya, Aznakaevo, Baltasi, Buinsk and Saby municipal districts of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The following enterprises have finished repairing of soil tilling and sowing machines: “Chishma” and “Bashak” in Aktanysh municipal district, “Yash Kush” in Yelabuga municipal district, peasant farm enterprise “Islamov I.Z.” in Muslyumovo municipal district, “Kommuna” and “Avangard” in Buinsk municipal district.

As of today 3,663 tractors (with the forecast of 10,681), 2,743 seeding machines (5,991), 161 sowing machines (465), 2,812 cultivators (5,372) and 94,032 spike tooth harrows (124,271) have been repaired in the republic.