Target Program Development of Biotechnology in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2010-2020 is a regional policy document adopted by the Regional Council of Ministers of Tatarstan. It expires in 2020. State customer-coordinator of the Target Program is the Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan. An active state policy in the field of biotechnology will allow to solve the following problems: (a) provision of highly qualified medical care to the population and reducing dependence on imports of vital medicines; (b) providing the population with quality food of domestic production; (c) successful solution of environmental problems and development of an alternative power engineering based on renewable bioresources; (d) significant advancement of the entire economy on an innovative development path; (e) creation of new jobs and solution of demographic issues; (f) the rise of economically depressed regions, including through emergence of biotechnology clusters. The Republic of Tatarstan has a number of important prerequisites that contribute to the formation of a biotechnological cluster based on scientific institutions and main sectors of the economy Republic. The purpose of this Target Program is to describe the principles, structure and implementation mechanisms that form the basis of a long-term program Development of biotechnology in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2010-2020 . Development and use of biotechnology shall be used in industry, agricultural sector, pharmaceutics, alternative energy and ecology. Conventional First Generation Biotechnology Methods and Processes are used in the food, petrochemical, pharmaceutical industries of Tatarstan. Currently is conducted scientific research related to: (a) bioconversion of plant raw materials and waste from timber processing and agricultural enterprises to obtain valuable food and industrial products (foodstuffs and fuel ethanol and biodiesel, glucose concentrate, enzyme preparations, biogas, etc.); (b) obtaining antibiotics for veterinary purposes; (c) biodecontamination and recycling of industrial and utilities waste; (d) bioindication of environmental pollution and monitoring; and (e) intensification of the primary processing of raw milk while maintaining high biological activity thereof.
Fédération de Russie · 2010-03-24