NEWS

Today the conference of Tatarstan Gardeners Union has taken place in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan chaired by Nikolai Titov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Representatives of ministries and departments, heads of the executive boards of municipal districts and suburbs of Kazan, chairmen of gardeners’ non-commercial partnerships and gardeners were invited to the event.

The Federal Department of Agriculture summed up the results of the specific-purpose program called “Preservation and remediation of farmlands fertility and preservation of agricultural landscapes as part of the Russian National Heritage for the periods of 2006-2010 and till 2013”. The results are posted on the official website of the Government of the Russian Federation.

According to the current data there is spring sowing in 25 regions of the republic. The total territory for sowing is 45,900 ha.

7,600 ha are sowed with wheat, 25,900 ha are sowed with barley, 39,000 ha are sowed with winter crops. There is also oat sowing (3,500 ha), pea sowing (1,900 ha), etc.

On April 21, as a part of a joint session of the Upper Chamber and the President’s Council on carrying-out of priority national projects and demographic policy, Nikolai Fedorov – Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation – gave a speech on the issues of sustainable development of rural regions. The session was chaired by Vladimir Putin.

In April in the majority of constituent entities of the Russian Federation a contest among young farmers and farm households, developing family livestock breeding farms, is held. The winners will receive grants for 2014.

Today in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan a seminar-meeting chaired by Nikolai Titov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, was held. It was called “Livestock viability and reproduction, beef cattle breeding in the Republic of Tatarstan”.

Heads of agriculture and food departments of municipal districts of the republic were present there.

In Aktanysh municipal district the conference called “Field work analysis 2013, tasks and challenges 2014, ways to reduce costs of field work 2014” took place in “Yanaul” LLC.

The following officials participated in the event: Fail Kamaev, Head of Aktanysh municipal district, Danif Kharisov, Head of Agriculture and Food Department, various heads of agricultural departments, farmers.

Today in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan there was an organizational meeting on arrangements of “Halal” Fair in OJSC “Agricultural Park “Kazan”.

Nikolay Titov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, held the meeting.

Today in the FSBEI Further Vocational Education of Specialists “Tatar Institute of Personnel Development in Agribusiness” a final meeting with local agrochemists and specialists from OJSC “Tatagrochim” was held. The meeting was devoted to the results of cooperative work of the FSBI “Agrochemical Service Center “Tatarsky”, the FSBI “Agrochemical Service Station “Almetyevskaya” and OJSC “Tatagrochim”.

The speech was given by Anas Lukmanov, Director of the FSBI “Agrochemical Service Center “Tatarsky”, Mutgasim Mametov, Director of the FSBI “Agrochemical Service Station “Almetyevskaya”, Nail Gubaidullin, Director General of OJSC “Tatagrochim”.

The Tatarstan delegation headed by Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the republic, is on an official visit in People’s Republic of China. The first town to visit was Urumchi, the administrative center of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The Tatarstan delegation includes: Marat Akhmetov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan; Linar Yakupov, Director of the Investment-Driven Development Agency; Radik Gimatdinov, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan for the International Activities; Nail Maganov, Director General of OJSC “Tatneft”; Rustem Sulteev, Board Chairman of OJSC “TAIF”; Rafinat Yarullin, Director General of OJSC “Tatneftchiminvest-holding”; Shamil Ageev, Tatarstan CCI Chairman.