Tatarstan Minister of Agriculture: The republic has completed grain harvest campaign

On 8 October, reporting about results of the current harvest campaign at a meeting held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov with participation of regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government house of the republic, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zayabbarov said that the republic has completed the harvest campaign, having threshed more than 5m tonnes of grain.

He said that agricultural workers continue harvesting oil seed rape, sugar beet, potatoes and other vegetables and started harvesting corn.

The farmers continue autumn ploughing, having tilled 1.3m hectares of 74 per cent of the planned, the Minister reported.