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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.

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.