Agricultural machinery production reached nationwide level in our republic - Rustem Khamitov

UFA, 13 November 2017. /Bashinform News Agency/. Speaking at a solemn meeting dedicated to the Agricultural Workers and Processing Industries Day, the Head of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov said that in 2017 agrarians purchased more than 1,600 units of equipment and machinery for a total amount of over 3 billion rubles.

"It is necessary to continue technical and technological modernization of agriculture as a whole, to purchase state-of-the-art combines and tractors, to improve the quality of repair and modernization of machinery, to increase the number of enterprises certified in this part - today there are 17 of them," Rustem Khamitov said.

The Head of the Region marked achievements of the republican manufacturers, which currently produced 120 items of various types of machinery and equipment.

“It is important that the production of agricultural machinery in the republic reached the nationwide level. This year, the BashAgroMash enterprise from Sterlitamak district is included in the federal subsidy program for manufacturing plants, as well as the federal register of the largest producers of agricultural machinery. The Chishmy branch of Bashselkhoztechnika company together with the Belarusian colleagues launched an assembly of Belarus tractors and other necessary equipment,” Rustem Khamitov stated. “Support of the republican agricultural machinery producers will be continued, including in terms of modern equipment acquiring.”

According to the Head of Bashkortostan this year for the first time the costs of technological equipment for the site specific crop management introduction are subsidized. Scientists of Bashkir State Agrarian University master the production of the instrument cluster. Such innovations will enable effective management of working processes in both crop production and livestock.