Marat Akhmetov met chiefs of local directorates for agriculture and food

Today Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov met chiefs of local directorates for agriculture and food of the Republic of Tatarstan. The meeting took place in the FSBEI “Tatar Institute of Agro-Business Personnel Development”.

The following officials also participated in it: Nikolai Titov, Nazip Khazipov, Ildus Gabdrakhmanov, Talgat Tagirzyanov, Rishat Khabipov, Marat Zyabbarov, directors of subordinate enterprises and agricultural institutions of the republic.

At the beginning of the meeting, Marat Akhmetov announced preliminary records of Tatarstan AIC in 2016. “The expected gross output of agricultural products in all kinds of households is going to be 235 billion rubles this year, the increase is 5.2 %”.

The task for the forthcoming year is to provide the same increase.

New approaches to the federal state support for agricultural producers were discussed at the meeting. Special attention was paid to the issues of labour remuneration and incentives. Thus, the average salary of an employee in the sphere of agriculture is expected to be 18,500 rubles. As Marat Akhmetov noted, during the following years it was necessary to double the salary growth rates.

At the end of the meeting Marat Aknmetov answered questions of the chiefs of local agricultural directorates, namely, concerning development of greenhouse complexes and purchasing of machinery.