Horse breeding
In the 2010s, the district administration embarked on a course to diversify the regional economy with a special focus on agriculture. By 2020, agricultural land occupied more than 55% of the total land area of the district. Wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat, potatoes and other crops are commonly cultivated in the district. Additionally, the livestock industry is among the prevailing sources of revenue for rural commodity producers. Horse breeding is a particularly active sphere of development in the district economy. For example, the horse breeding entrepreneur Farid Nabiullin has been striving for ten years to bring back the disappearing Tatar breed of horses. At the moment, there are only a few hundred remaining representatives of this breed in Tatarstan.