Farid Mukhametshin: “Spring sowing is gaining pace”

03.05.2013

Today Chairman of the RT State Council Farid Mukhametshin and Vice-Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Agriculture Marat Akhmetov visited Bavlinsky, Yutazinsky and Bugulminsky regions to check the progress of spring sowing campaign.

Farid Mukhametshin and Marat Akhmetov met with the local farmers and heads of agricultural facilities. The Chairman of the RT State Council noted that sowing campaign is gaining pace all over the republic. The crop planting is well organized and carried out within deadlines.

The RT Minister of Agriculture informed that as of today spring sowing of crops has been implemented on 524,000 hectares, which means that 29 percent of the planned work has been fulfilled already.

“We hope that after three difficult years of poor harvest current year will be more successful for the republic,” the Tatarstan Parliament Speaker said.

Administration of the RT State Council