Tatarstan President takes part in launching a juice factory in Laishevo region
7 October 2015, Wednesday
On October 7, in Laishevo region, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov attended a solemn ceremony devoted to the beginning of the implementation of the investment project on construction of a plant for the production of juices with a logistics center. The Azerbaijani company Benkons Group is the project investor.
A preliminary agreement on the feasibility of the project was reached during the visit of Head of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Talia Minullina to Azerbaijan in December last year. In February this year, the project was presented to Tatarstan President. At the same time an agreement on cooperation between Benkons Group and TIDA was signed.
The Azerbaijani company is engaged in activities in various fields, including import and distribution of consumer goods, implements projects in the construction sector, exports fruit and vegetable processing products to Europe, Asia and America.
A plant in Tatarstan will specialize in the production of natural juices from organic fruit. It is expected that the volume of investments in the project will amount to more than 4 billion roubles. The minimum design capacity of the plant is nearly 54 million liters of juice per year. The planned number of employees of the plant and logistics center is 250 people. It is expected that the plant will start to operate in early 2017.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
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.