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Today we will tell about Turuntaeva Maria Sergeevna. She was born on October 10, 1926 in the village of Bagayevo, Kaybitsky district. At the age of 14, after five classes of the local school she began working on the collective farm. From the very first days of the war her father left to the front and never returned. The family had six children orphaned. Working for two and thus contributing to the victory became the Mary’s goal. Since the spring of 1942 she worked on a farm and was mobilized for forestry. For valiant work she awarded a medal.

This was stated by the Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin during a working visit to Almetyevsk district on February 19, where he participated in the meeting of the Council of the municipality on the results of work for 2018 and tasks for 2019.

These days, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan takes part in the shooting of the historical film “Zuleikha opens his eyes” based on the work by Guzel Yakhina.

The 1st March of 2019 came into force the Federal Law No. 563-FZ “On State Support in the Field of Agricultural Insurance”.

On February 16, by the theme “Know your native land”, the specialists of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan visited the Museum of the Siberian Tract’s History, the wicker factory “Willow Furniture”  and the ski base.

Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov took part in the reporting session of the Kukmorsky District on the basis of socio-economic development for 2018.

On 22nd of February  the Minister of Agriculture of Russia Dmitry Patrushev will visit the Republic of Tatarstan and hold a meeting on the planned volumes of production and export of agricultural products by the regions of the Volga Federal District. The plenipotentiary of the President of Russia Igor Komarov, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the heads of the regions of the district will take part in it.

On February 16, the grand opening of first rapeseed processing plant with the participation of the head of the Kaibitsky district, Albert Rakhmatullin, took place in Bolshoye Podberezye village.

Today, the hero of our “People of Labor” rubric is Zaripova Tausiha Garayevna, who has found her vocation in the sheep farming industry. Tausiha Garayevna was born in 1930 in the village of Murtaza, Bavly District. Her father worked as an agronomist at the Kirov collective farm, and her mother worked as an ordinary collective farmer. Tausiha's childhood overlapped with the Great Patriotic War, and as a girl, along with all her rural peers, helped adults, mostly women, as much as she could, to do hard peasant work in the fields and farms.

Today, within the framework of the exhibition of the agro-industrial complex and processing industry, the youth forum “Business in the countryside - real opportunities and prospects for development” was held, bringing together more than 700 participants: university students and active youth.