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Today, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tajikistan held a meeting with the districts, where they summed up the results of livestock production for 10 months of the current year. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Gelyus Bayazitov.

Over the past 2 years, the number of agritech startups in Russia has increased by 30%, with most of them engaged in precision agriculture, the Internet of things and biotechnology. Experts from the AgroInvest Club of Rosselkhozbank spoke about this at the International specialized B2B exhibition of producers and participants in the fruit and vegetable market “Global Fresh Market: Vegetables & Fruits”.

The next project session on the topic of import substitution and modern trends in agrobiotechnologies was held at the Idea technology park, chaired by the director of the IVF RT Ainur Aideldinov. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Gelyus Bayazitov took part in its work. He presented a project for the development of dairy farming in the Republic of Tatarstan using applied genetics.

The Bakhetle group of companies, as part of business transformation, plans to increase the number of suppliers specializing in farm and exclusive imported products. This year, Bakhetle’s turnover increased by 8% compared to the same period last year, the corresponding figures were announced at a meeting with suppliers of the group of companies. Also, according to the new strategy, Bakhetle intends to focus on goods of its own production, direct imports, natural farm products and collaboration with premium brands.

On September 9, traditional agricultural fairs began in the republic. They take place at 14 sites in the city of Kazan, 2 sites in Naberezhnye Chelny and the Zelenodolsk municipal district, as well as at 3 sites in Nizhnekamsk and with varying frequency in 26 municipal districts.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan announces that from November 7 to November 21, 2023, it will accept applications from citizens running private farms for reimbursement of part of the costs of purchasing commercial and breeding stock of heifers and first-calf heifers at the rate of 60.0 thousand rubles and 70.0 thousand rubles; for the construction of mini dairy farms - 600 thousand rubles for a dairy farm from 8 cows, and 300 thousand rubles - for a dairy farm from 5 cows.

Today, at the premises of JSC State Enterprise Elite, a meeting of members of the Union of Organizations for Pedigree Dairy Animal Husbandry was held, in which Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Gelyus Bayazitov and heads of breeding farms of the republic took part.

The Zelenodolsk milk processing plant entered the top ten of the TOP 100 largest milk processors in Russia rating. It was prepared by the Dairy Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the DairyNews news agency.

Since the beginning of the year, the key bank in financing agriculture, Rosselkhozbank, has issued 16.9 billion rubles to farmers of the Republic of Tatarstan. Of these, agricultural producers received more than 70% of the funds at a preferential rate.

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation announced the results of the dynamic ranking among regions for the third quarter of 2023, and Tatarstan again took first place, gaining 8 points.