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Today the hero of our column "People of Labor", in which we write about ordinary people who have earned honor and respect for their daily work, is Gabdulhak Shakirov from the village of Nizhnyaya Oshma, Mamadysh district. On March 10 of this year, he would have turned 100 years old.

Today the delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov visited the Sverdlovsk region. The purpose of the trip was to exchange experience and study achievements in the field of agricultural education and selection and seed production.

The President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov took part in the general reporting meeting of Tatpotrebsoyuz today.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Agriculture of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov visited a modernized farm in the village of Baltayevo, Menzelinsky District. The head of Kamsky Bacon Ildar Galyautdinov introduced him to the activities of the livestock complex. The Minister was told about the activities of the enterprise and the preparations for the construction of a large complex for the dairy herd. The new investor has already invested 1.2 billion rubles in the Baltaevsky complex. Breeding heifers from Denmark and Estonia were purchased, the farm was modernized, new equipment was installed. Breeding heifers give up to 28-30 kg of milk per day. The investor's farms employ 86 people, and the average salary is about 36 thousand rubles. Also, during a working visit to Baltaevo, the minister was presented with a new dairy complex, which will contain 6 thousand heads of dairy cows. The facility will be built in 2 stages in 2021-2023, with a total investment of 3.3 billion rubles.

From 10 to 12 February, a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan was held at the Kazan Expo IEC. The event was attended by over 220 companies from 25 regions of the Russian Federation, as well as 17 foreign representative offices. More than 11 thousand professionals of the agro-industrial complex from 32 regions of Russia, guests from the CIS countries, as well as Ireland and the USA attended the exhibition "TatAgroExpo".

In 2020, the share of farmers in gross agricultural production increased from 13.7% to 14.3%, and the production index exceeded 103.8% - this is the highest growth rate in agriculture.

A honey festival was held today at the TIPKA FGBOU DPO.

President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov took part in a conference dedicated to the expansion of cooperation between X5 Retail Group and Tatarstan producers. The event took place on the territory of the Kazan International Equestrian Complex.

The first building of a new mega-farm for 1,500 dairy cows has been launched in the agricultural production cooperative of the Rassvet agrofirm in the Kukmorsky district. The total investment in the project amounted to 930 million rubles.

A delegation headed by Renat Gatiyatov, head of the Agriculture and Food Administration of the Arsk District, visited the Zalesye holding to exchange experience.