"We in the grain, in the implementation (although more than 5 million tons of grain collected in the past year) received less revenue in the amount of 3 billion rubles. Comparing it with the prices of the market last year. In milk during the past seven months we, too, 3 billion revenue fell short of the previous year in price difference", — said Akhmetov at a briefing at Tatarstan government.

Lost 6 billion rubles, according to Akhmetov, would seriously enhance agricultural enterprises and as working capital and funds to upgrade technology. The Minister noted that the price of the grain harvest this year is still emerging. According to him, this year the purchase price of grain may be much higher than last year, especially, according to forecasts gross grain harvest in Russia will amount to 90-100 million tons, while last year it collected 134 million tons of grain.

Akhmetov said that Tatarstan gross grain harvest will also be much lower than last year, when the Republic has collected more than 5 million tons of grain. The main reason for the decline in grain harvest in the Republic, according to the Minister, the drought affecting several regions of the Volga region. In particular in Tatarstan, the drought was recorded in 17 districts, where three months was less than 70 millimetres of rain in mean annual values of 170 mm.

According to Akhmetov, at the moment of the 1.5 million hectares of harvesting areas harvested 640 thousand hectares (43% of plan). In total in Tatarstan collected 1.8 million tons of grain at an average yield of 27.9 tons per hectare. The harvest of grain in the Republic are busy with 2.3 million units of combine harvesters of various modifications.

By the end of 2017, the farmers of Tatarstan the highest over the past seven years, the grain yield is 5.2 million tons with an average yield of 34.2 kg per hectare.