On April 22, speaking at a video-conference with participation of all municipalities held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin at the Government House of the republic, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic reported that 215,000 hectares, or 20 per cent of the total area, of winter crops and perennial grasses have been fertilized. Because of the current weather we can not proceed to large-scale field works, he said.
Akhmetov informed participants of the meeting about economic indicators reached in the first quarter of 2017. In particular, he reported that the volume of gross output in all categories of farms amounted to 40.6 billion roubles with an increase of 101.6 per cent.