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On April 17, the State Budgetary Institution “Competence Center for the Development of Agricultural Cooperation in the Republic of Tatarstan” organized business meetings of agricultural producers with representatives of retail stores in Kazan. This event was a continuation of the "Week of effective cooperation", held in March in Tetyushsky district and aimed at the implementation of measures for the development of agricultural consumer cooperatives in the country.

So the long-awaited time for farmers to go out into the field has come, and the farms of the Spassky district have begun to carry out agrotechnical measures - primary feeding and harrowing of the crops. Carrying out of these works in fast terms and with observance of necessary requirements is a guarantee of a good harvest.

On April 17, at the Palace of Farmers, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov met with the head of the Dutch company APH GROUP Wits Oosterban on the cultivation of potatoes and vegetables on Dutch technology.

On April 16, the final meeting of the Board was held in the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia. The event was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexey Gordeyev, Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev, Chairman of the Council of the Federation Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management Alexey Mayorov, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on Agrarian Issues Vladimir Kashin, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov, as well as heads of regions, heads of regional authorities of the agroindustrial complex, industry alliances and associations.

Employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic joined the sanitary-ecological activity, launched in Tatarstan. On April 16, specialists of the Ministry, armed with rakes and shovels, began to clean up the area in front of the Palace of Farmers.

On April 15, a joint meeting of the Committee on Ecology, Environmental Management, Agrarian and Food Policy and the Commission of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on monitoring the implementation of the state program "Agricultural Development and Regulation of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials and Food in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2013-2020" was held. The parliamentarians heard a report on the activities of the republic's executive authorities and also discussed the results of the implementation of the state program. The Minister of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov attended the meeting.

Entering in Tatarstan in the near future new productions will allow to process 4 thousand tons of milk per day. This was announced today at a meeting of the Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on ecology, environmental management, agro-industrial and food policy, by the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov.

This was discussed at a meeting on April 15 by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Elena Fastova, in the form of a video conference on the current state of agricultural insurance. The event was also attended by Ildus Gabdrakhmanov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Tatarstan, Irek Sadykov, Head of Plant Industry Development Division, Marcel Makhmutov, Head of Financing Department, Tatarstan Ministry of Agricultural Production Specialists, representatives of regional government agencies of the republic.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan pays great attention to the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the countryside. Today, in every district there are people who have opened their own business and successfully developed it. One of these is Anatoly Samarenkin, who opened a plant for the production of oyster mushrooms in his native village of Old Mokshino, Aksubayevsky district.

In the Tatar Interregional Veterinary Laboratory they introduced the method of genetic identification of cattle. According to the Deputy Head of the Department of Information, Analytical and Business Support of the Department Nail Faizrakhmanov, the Tatar Interregional Veterinary Laboratory has completed the introduction of cattle genotyping techniques based on the analysis of microsatellite markers, that is what is happening at the DNA level.