The Ministry of agriculture and Food of the republic of Tatarstan: spring sowing has been done on 380,000 ha of fields in Tatarstan

As of today, spring sowing in Tatarstan has been carried out on 380,000 ha of fields, which is 36% of the plan. The figures were stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov at the session in the House of Government of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The videoconferencing session with all municipal districts were held by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin also took part in the session.

Marat Akhmetov informed that all municipal districts of the republic had started the sowing campaign. 530,000 ha out of 1.8 million ha of lands had been sown with crops: 380,000 ha (36%) – with spring crops, 40,000 ha (54%) – with sugar beetroot, 35,000 ha (15%) – with oil crops, 80,000 ha (20%) – with fodder crops. About 100,000 of lands are sown with crops every day.

The leading municipal districts in sowing are Zainsk (76%), Sarmanovo (61%), Aktanysh (45%), Nurlat (43%), Tetyushi (33%) and Mamadysh (30%).

The figures concerning investors of the sowing campaign: Agroinvest – 45%, Agrosila group – 40%, Ak Bars Holding – 26%, Tatagroleasing – 26%, KB-Agro – 20%.

Marat Akhmetov noted that the potential of winter crops were a little bit lower which was connected with the late snow cover melting and various diseases. However, the minister was sure that timely nitrogen dressing could change the situation. It is worth mentioning that winter crops occupy over 570,000 ha of lands.

“There is such a term in agronomy as soil exhaustion. Soil exhaustion happens when the soil structure contains a big share of spiked cereals and sunflower. The solution is simple – it is necessary to enrich soil with organic matter, and we have been working this way for the recent years”, - said Marat Akhmeov.

Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan noted that sowing of sinapis, oil radish and melilotus could provide soil with components necessary for the good quality of plant living. “We should plan to sow not less than 20% of fields with these crops. It will give us 600,000 fertilized fields in Tatarstan every year”, - concluded Marat Akhmetov.