Governor of the Volgograd region Sergei Bozhenov positively estimates Tatarstan experience of establishing Agro-industrial park
16 January 2013, Wednesday
Delegation of the Volgograd region led by the Governor Sergei Bozhenov visited Agro-industrial park in Kazan. Guests were accompanied by the Tatarstan PM Ildar Khalikov.
To the point, delegation of the Volgograd region arrived in Kazan with a two-day visit (January, 15-16).
Agro-industrial park is a technology complex focused on development of small and medium-size business in the sphere of agriculture. It was founded to provide republican agricultural producers with necessary material and technical facilities for realization of their business activity.
Necessary business infrastructure for rendering different services will be created in the complex.
Agro-industrial park located in area accessible for public transport will provide inflow of retail customers.
The following services will be rendered to residents of the Agro-industrial park: lease of sales, production and office areas, hotel and banking services. Production premises will be provided with shared service equipment to support residents’ activity. It is expected to establish departments for washing, sorting and packing of vegetable produce, meat handling and packing, a laboratory of sanitary examination, and other production and service premises.
Governor of the Volgograd region Sergei Bozhenov positively estimated development of agricultural business and suggested studying Tatarstan’s experience in this sphere.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.