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In the first half of 2019, Tatarstan’s agricultural enterprises increased livestock production. In January-June of the current year, in the republic, in agricultural organizations and peasant farms, 670.9 thousand tons of milk have been produced, 200.1 thousand tons of cattle and poultry meat. The increase was 4% and 2%, respectively to the same period of last year. At the same time, 49.2 thousand tons of krs meat(99%) was produced, 44.7 thousand tons (105%) of pork, 105.0 thousand tons of poultry (102%).

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov reported at a meeting at the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan about the work carried out with small forms of rural management.

Today, the hero of our “People of Labor” rubric, in which we write about ordinary people who have gained honor and respect with their everyday work, is Nurmukhamet Shamsiyevich Shamsiyev from the Tukayevsky district, who worked as a mechanic for 50 years.

Field work in the regions of the republic is under special control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan. Fields of the republic work on the preparation of feed.

On July 20, the 4th All-Russian festival Skorlupino will be held in the pine forest of Pestretsy village. The event is organized by the NGO “Agrarian Youth Association of the Republic of Tatarstan and the executive committee of the Pestrechinsky municipal district.

The opening of the largest in Russia agrotechnical exhibition “All-Russian Field Day - 2019” took place in the Leningrad Region. The Minister of Agriculture of Russian Federation Dmitry Patrushev and the Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko took part in the solemn ceremony.

For timely and effective harvesting, the high technical readiness of the entire harvesting-transport complex and the precise organization of their work are crucial.

In the Almetyevsk region, work is actively underway on a large-scale project “Vegetable Valley”. In the cooperative "Village" in the current year there are 16 residents engaged in growing vegetables and berries. The sown area was more than 110 hectares.

Today, the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Dmitry Patrushev launched the work of the III International Fisheries Forum, which will be held July 10-11 in St. Petersburg. This year the main discussion platform of the Russian fishery complex is receiving 20 foreign delegations, representatives of domestic and foreign business, industry associations. The key theme of the event is “Ocean of opportunities: nature, economy, people”.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan announces the 2nd stage of competitive selection of agricultural consumer cooperatives to provide grants for the development of their material and technical base by the program “Development of agricultural consumer cooperatives in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2017-2020”.