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“Based on the results of the first half of 2020, Russia supplied agricultural products to foreign markets with a total value of more than USD 13 billion. This is $ 2 billion, or 18% more compared to the same period last year, ” said Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko.

There are pleasant chores in the agro-industrial complex "Prodprogramma" of the Mamadysh district, where a Holstein cow brought triplets - 2 girls and 1 boy. Newborn calves are healthy, weigh 2 kg less than the norm, however, they got up quickly. Their mother recovered just as easily after giving birth - on the fifth day the cow was already giving 40 liters of milk.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan continues telling about people who have found their vocation in the agro-industrial sector within the project "Talents from the Heart of the Republic: Youth / Projects / Stories" of the regional public organization "Agrarian Youth Association of the Republic of Tatarstan”.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan reports that producers and processors of agricultural products will be able to extend the previously taken preferential short-term loan for a year. According to Victoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, this will be one of measures to support the industry amid the spread of coronavirus.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan continues a series of publications devoted to the agriculture of the TASSR during the Great Patriotic War. During the war years, Tatarstan became especially important in the food supply of the army and the population. Moreover, women became the leading force in the agrarian sector of Tatarstan during the war years. In the collective farms of Tatarstan, they worked out up to 70–75% of the total number of workdays, they also made up 75% of the permanent working state farms.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan with great respect for the veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. and those who worked in the rear in those years, providing the country's food supply. Today we are opening a series of publications devoted to agriculture of the TASSR during the Great Patriotic War, in which we will tell how Tatarstanians raised bread, women became the leading force in the agricultural sector, about workdays and children working in the fields.

Tatarstan agricultural enterprises continue to operate, ensuring the food security of the republic. One of them is the agricultural supply and marketing (trade) consumer cooperative “Kausar” in the Laishevsky district. In 2018, the company received a 30 million rubles grant from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan for the purchase of equipment for processing poultry meat. The production works according to Halal standards. More than 40 jobs were created on the site.

Today, the Kukmorsky district has reached the turn of 300 tons for daily milk production. For the first time in history and the first of the regions of the Republic of Tatarstan, the hard workers of the Kukmorsky district crossed the bar of 300 tons of gross milk yield per day, having the smallest farmland in the republic.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan pays great attention to the development of agricultural cooperation in the republic. For farmers, joining a cooperative has several advantages. First of all, it is an increase in the profitability of production by combining efforts in the production, storage and processing of products. Secondly, access to credit resources, and thirdly, the possibility of access to large regional and federal retail chains. But for the successful operation of the cooperative, effective management is a need. This is exactly what everyone is taught during the modular express course “Cooperative Manager”.

Today at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan, as part of the XX Congress of the Association of Farmers, the winners of the republican contest “Family Farmer Dynasties” were awarded. Of the 12 peasant (farmer) farms that were announced for the competition, 5 peasant farms from 4 municipal regions of Tatarstan won prizes in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. Among them there are farm dynasties from Arsky, Buinsky (2 representatives), Kama-Ustinsky and Chistopol districts.