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Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev held a regular meeting of the Operational Headquarters to monitor the situation with socially significant agricultural products and food. Representatives of the Federation Council, federal authorities, supervisory authorities, key financial organizations, industry unions and associations, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard, jointly discussed the situation on the domestic food market and, in general, in the agricultural sector. Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov took part in the event.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan informs that on April 6, the National Commodity Exchange began accepting applications for accreditation for participation in commodity interventions. The trading volume will be up to 1.5 million tons, the preliminary date of the trading start is April 13.

One of the key mechanisms of state support for the technical modernization of the agricultural sector implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan is preferential leasing, which allows farmers to purchase modern agricultural machinery and equipment on the most attractive conditions. With the support of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, Rosagroleasing JSC launched a special anti-crisis offer for agricultural producers from April 6 to June 1, 2020, providing the possibility of applying a deferral of principal debt of up to 1 year.

On April 6, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov checked the readiness for sowing in the Arsky district of Tatarstan.

In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated April 2, 2020 No. 239 “On measures to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Russian Federation in connection with the spread of new coronavirus infection (COVID -19)” (hereinafter - the Decree), non-working days from April 4-30, 2020 inclusive were announced, with salaries retained by employees. The exception are organizations listed in clause 4 of the Decree.

On April 6, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan summed up the results of the livestock industry for the first quarter of 2020. The meeting in the videoconferencing regime was chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov.

In Tatarstan, at the Kazan irrigation equipment factory, the Kazan-based wide-angle circular sprinkler was developed and manufactured. The machine was created based on international best practices in the production of irrigation systems, and is not inferior in quality and characteristics to foreign analogues.

One of the companies operating in this difficult time is Tatagrohimservis. The structures included in the group of companies provide technological solutions not only to the agricultural sector of Tatarstan and neighboring regions, but also to some areas of agricultural production in Russia.

In the new season, Agrosila allocated 500 million rubles to the annual repair campaign, a year earlier the amount of investments was 900 million rubles, said Peter Chaplygin, Deputy General Director of Agrosila JSC for issues of the activities of Agrosila Service JSC. “Due to lean manufacturing, which allows us to ensure proper operation of special equipment, and the work carried out last season, we were able to more than halve the necessary costs for the repair of equipment. We also developed standard operating cards, providing them with the necessary tools, which allows us to restore and not buy more and more positions, ”said Peter Chaplygin.

This was reported at the republican meeting in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov. The President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov held a videoconference with all municipal areas.