NEWS

On March 4, the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Nail Zalakov met with a delegation led by a member of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management, a representative from the legislative government body of the Republic of Tatarstan Gennady Emelyanov.

Today, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and JSC "Agricultural Bank" concluded an agreement on the provision of subsidies for the reimbursement of lost income on issued mortgages in rural areas. The subsidy provided to the Agricultural Bank for reimbursement of expenses this year will amount to 789 million rubles.

On March 2, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Dzhambulat Khatuov held a meeting on the development of the pig breeding sub-sector. The event was attended by Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Lenar Garipov.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan informs that from March 3 to 5, 2020, the Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Vocational Education starts training on the advanced training program Organic Agriculture.

103 applicants who received state support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan last year, work in meat and dairy cattle breeding, grow vegetables, grow marketable fish, horses and do beekeeping.

First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Nail Zalakov reported on preparations for spring field work and the preparation of mineral fertilizers today at a meeting in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan.

According to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan adopted on February 26, one-time payments in the amount of 100 thousand rubles will be provided to residents of rural areas and urban-type settlements under the age of 29 at the birth of the third and each subsequent child.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan conducts operational monitoring in the field of lending to the country's agro-industrial complex during the spring field work.

Today in the Apastovsky District, a meeting of the District Council was held on the results of socio-economic development for 2019 and the tasks for 2020 with the participation of the Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, Alexey Pesoshin. The event was also attended by Rishat Khabipov - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Today, many farmers and private household plots are joining agricultural consumer cooperatives. This is done in order to sell their products more profitably and be more competitive at the market. In the beginning of this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, 273 cooperatives were registered in the republic, in 2019 their number increased by 45. This recovery is explained by growing state support. Since 2015, cooperatives have received 827 million rubles state support.