NEWS

According to recent reports of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, 1.3 million ha (77% ) were sowed with spring crops, including 932.1 thousand ha with winter crops, 402.6 thousand ha with wheat, 51.6 thousand ha with peas. 383.2 thousand ha were sowed with barley in different districts of the republic.

Under the federal special purpose program “Social development of the village for the period until 2013”, the subjects of the Russian Federation were supported with the federal budget with the purpose of construction and reconstruction of clubs, community centers and on providing local community centers and libraries with specialized portable equipment (autoclubs).

Today, on May, 8, the acceptance of documents into the contest committee on application processing on the program “Development of family livestock breeding farms based on farm households in the republic of Tatarstan, 2014” has finished.

In the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the republic of Tatarstan the results of 4-last-months-work in cattle breeding were summarized and the tasks for the period of summer camping of cattle were set.

The session was chaired by Nazip Khazipov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Consultants on cattle breeding of local districts, specialists of brood service of municipal districts, directors of brood enterprises, representatives of investment companies, etc. participated in the session.

As reported in the Tatarstan Agricultural Research Institute, scientists of Tatarstan developed a new method of Colorado potato beetle controlling.

The new method of Colorado potato beetle controlling is what prior to planting potato tubers are treated with a special agent. After that the blasts don’t threaten the plants during the whole summer. Colorado potato beetles die when they touch leaves of the plants and use them as food. Colorado potato beetle ovocates also die.

According to recent reports of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan the spring sowing campaign is being carried out in all regions of the republic. 566.2 thousand ha (33%) have been sowed.

103,700 ha are sowed with wheat, 260,200 ha are sowed with rye, and 431,800 ha are sowed with spring crops.

Marat Akhmetov – Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – reported on the sowing campaign at the session in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan today.

Within the framework of the second part of Social Organisations Forum “Together!” on Tuesday, April 29, a round table discussion “Civil society – creating the future” was held. Participants discussed various problems of AIC and quality of life in the village.

Nikolai Titov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Ilsul Safiullin, Vice-Chairman of the State Council Committee of Ecology, Natural Resource Management and Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan, took part in the round table discussion. Villagers from Atnya, Saby, Baltasi as well as from other regions discussed with the officials the most important issues.

The spring sowing campaign is gathering pace in Tatarstan despite the fact that it started a litter later this year due to bad weather conditions. According to Ildus Gabdrakhmanov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, who was giving a speech at the Cabinet of Ministers briefing, in 2014 the sowing area in Tatarstan is 2.9 million ha (which is equal to the figures of previous years) where 1.7 million ha are for spring sowing.

Every year on April 28 World Day for Safety and Health at Work is celebrated. Its aim is to attract attention of the world society to the widespread problems of how development of work safety could promote decline in annual death rate at the workplace.

The topic of 2014 is “Work safety in using of chemicals at the workplace”. Every year World Day of Safety and Health at Work is devoted to the problems vital for the International Labour Organisation and is devoted to different issues such as: “Work safety at each workplace”, “Risk management”, “Safe work – the right of everyone”, “Promotion of work safety in green economy”, etc.