University to allocate agricultural land to employees

Vice-Rector for Biomedicine Andrey Kiyasov speaks about the new project.

“We have an agricultural biological station in Kazan,” he explains. “There are 20 hectares of unused land there. We can cultivate various plants on the land. Currently, they are only grown in labs, but we are thinking about including vegetables, fruits, and medicinal herbs. We also plan to open a volunteer agricultural park for schoolkids. Our educators and students will tutor children on agricultural work.”

Dr. Kiyasov also elaborates on why KFU decided to allocate land for employees as well.

“Not all of our employees have their own gardens where they can grow vegetables for the family. So, the agricultural station will have separate land plots to plant potato, cabbage, carrot, beet, and other annotinous cultures. The university will provide plowing services,” he says.

A formal decision is now to be made by the University’s trade union to start distributing plots.