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Today in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan there was a session called “Development of the republican program on of module-type slaughter units construction in municipal districts of the republic of Tatarstan”, chaired by Nikolai Titov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan.

On May 28-30 of the current year in FSEI of HPE “Kazan State Academy of Veterinary Medicine named after N.E. Bauman” All-Russia Science-to-Practice conference “Veterinary Medicine and zootechnics, education, production: important issues” will be held.

Today in the ago industrial park “Kazan” the first republican fair of halal production was opened.

In the opening ceremony the following officials participated: Deputy Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov, representatives of “Halal” Standard Committee of Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan, “Halal” Industry National Association, personnel of the agro industrial park “Kazan”.

According to recent reports of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan the spring sowing campaign has finished on 1706.5 thousand ha which is 98% of the total area of fields.

Today on May 22 a republican seminar-session on beekeeping was held in Kazan.

The main report was presented by Rashit Safiullin, Director General of State-Financed Institution “Office of Beekeeping”. He reported about the perspectives of the development of beekeeping in the republic under the program “Beekeeping Development in the Republic of Tatarstan 2011-2020”.

On May 21 in the Tatar Institute of Personnel Development in Agribusiness International Science-to-Practice Conference “Competitive Growth and Efficiency of Agricultural Sector under World Trade Organization and Customs Union” was held.

More than 250 scholars, teachers, postgraduates, directors and specialists in agriculture from leading scientific and research centers of Russia, Belorussia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan took part in the conference.

Yesterday, on May 20, on experimental fields of Tatar Science and Research Institute a working session on organization of the International Exhibition 2015 was held. For the first time in the Republic of Tatarstan it is planned to organize “International Field Days in the Volga-Region”, which is a specialized International exhibition for specialists-practitioners and professionals similar to the DLG Field Day in Germany, on experimental fields of the institute.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan prepared a document on investment loans allocation for development of cattle breeding. The document was approved at the session of Government of the Russian Federation on May 8, 2014.

On May 21-22, 2014, International Research and Training Conference “Competitive growth and increase of efficiency of agricultural sector under the World Trade Organization and the Customs Union” will take place in FSBEI AFVE “Tatar institute of personnel development in agribusiness”.

Nikolai Yakushin, Rector of Tatar institute of personnel development in agribusiness, will speak on methodological approaches to the implementation of modern agricultural policy.

Students of Mechanization and Technical Service Institute of Kazan State Agrarian University have finished their work experience internship and come back from different districts of the republic, where they helped agricultural manufacturers to carry out the spring sowing campaign, as reported by Marsel Akhmetzyanov, Work Experience Internship Supervisor of Kazan State Agrarian University.