On October 10 at a meeting on issues of dairy industry in Kazan Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that is a very important sector of Tatarstan agriculture and should be a priority sphere for Tatarstan leadership and heads of municipal regions.

Minister of Agriculture and Food Marat Akhmetov made report on current state and prospects of Tatarstan dairy industry. He mentioned words of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who said at the meeting in Voronezh region that dairy industry is the most important and complicated sector of agriculture, because of the human factor.

Marat Akhmetov informed that there are 400 thousand cows in Tatarstan, 1.9 mln tons of milk are produced per year. Dairy farming makes 60 per cent of unit receipts of agricultural producers. However, the decrease in milk production by 3 per cent was observed in 2013.

Director of former Vamin holding Marat Muratov reported on the situation at holding enterprises.