Rustam Minnikhanov has congratulated with the Day of Agricultural Worker: Our aim is to make life of rural residents correspond to the most modern standards

On 19 October Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated all agricultural workers with their professional holiday – the Day of Workers of Agriculture and the Processing industry.

The celebrations were organized at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center with representatives of agribusiness teams from all over the republic taking part in them. Addressing the participants, Rustam Minnikhanov stressed that these are all those who work to provide fresh bread, milk, meat and vegetables for our tables.

He reminded that this year the republic harvested more than 5m tonnes of grain, 600 000 tonnes of oilseeds, 800 000 tonnes of potatoes, 260 000 tonnes of vegetables and 1.8m tonnes of sugar beet and  stocked up enough forage for productive cattle wintering.

Rustam Minnikhanov expressed his gratitude to regions and large agribusiness holdings which gave the highest yield, such as Arsk, Tetyushi, Buinsk regions and Agrosila, August-Agro and other companies.

Tatarstan President expressed his gratitude to combine drivers and stockbreeders and said: “The republic fully provides itself with cattle-breeding produce. In the current year farmers are planning to produce 1.980m tonnes of milk and 540 000 tonnes of meat”.

Having named some agricultural workers, who showed the highest productivity, Tatarstan President said: “It is impossible to name all top performers and we say thank you for your selfless labour. Agro-industrial complex is developing and the republic continues construction and modernization of cattle-breeding facilities, thrashing floors and elevators. Under current conditions we should fully provide our residents with basic food products as this is an issue of food security”.

He also reminded that small farms are an important development factor and every year the republic allocates about 2bn roubles on their support.

“Our aim is to make life of rural residents correspond to the most modern standards and the republic implements programmes focused on complex development of territories, 44 of them being fulfilled this year,” Tatarstan President informed.

In conclusion, Rustam Minnikhanov on behalf of all rural residents expressed the gratitude to farmers for weekly agricultural fairs held in cities and handed in state wards to the most outstanding of them.