Why to you, lieutenant, others earth?

Landowners of the Brest region will process the Russian hectares

Twice this summer the delegation of the Brest region visited the Oryol region Russia. During these visits the contract on trade and economic cooperation signed by Egor Stroyev and Vasily Dolgolev was signed. By the way, in one of clauses of the contract it is written down: "To approve work of Livensky district of the Oryol region and Kobrinskogo Brestskoy on mutually beneficial cooperation".

At the initiative of the chairman of Kobrin district executive committee Sergey Ashmyantsev it is offered to create for experiment mekhotryad and to try to be engaged in production of grain on Russian lands, first of all for complexes of the area and local poultry farm. The Russian side is ready to provide us at least 10, at least 30 thousand hectares of the earth. Like, create the joint venture, grow up grain, you pay a tax and you take out production. 30 thousand hectares are a half of arable lands of Kobrin district. Present how many it is necessary for processing of this earth of equipment, people, and to people – to equip life even at rotational system. And to seed, it is necessary to prepare seeds and so on …

Of course, the working group for detailed studying and development of the contract will be created. I will hardly get to this group for publicizing of work flow. But having "experience of friendship" with residents of Oryol in the 70th, I will try to see analogy and prospect behind the desktop.

So, in the best bumper-crop year (1987) in the history of Kobrin district in the area 120 thousand tons of grain from the harvested acreage 33 thousand hectares and from one hectare – on 36 centners are received. However, it is bunker weight. Granary is a little lower. (However it is only the abroad productivity considers that that in corn bins, we – that that in the bunker).

For today Kobrin district clean about 30 thousand hectares of a grain wedge, productivity by the end of cleaning will hardly exceed 23 c/hectare, and alleged gross collecting will make about 70 thousand tons. For area complexes on wintering of this year there are no about 11 thousand tons of grain. And it is necessary to Kobrinskaya poultry farm for a year of 10 thousand tons. And if to stretch these tons on a grain wedge of the area, then it is necessary to receive productivity about 29 c/hectare.

But there was an experience of receiving a shaft of grain in 120 thousand tons and productivity of 36 c/hectare! I agree that time introduced amendments in our reality. The assessment of fertility of soils of Belarus for 1989 made on Kobrin district 35 points, and for today only 29. But, having remembered masherovsky times, really and for today to take 100 kg of grain with ballo/hectare, that is it is possible to receive 29 c/hectare of grain. Having the earth and not allowing it to be exhausted why to us Oryol lands even if there a ballnost of an arable land 86?!

On BST the chairman of the Brest regional executive committee Vasily Dolgolev said in recent speech that wheat on Orel region makes such stand that throw a cap – will lie. However other participant of a trip notes that lands there on big massifs are not processed (therefore to us they and offer thousands of hectares) and, of course, for years grow with weed vegetation. And to improve this others arable land, considerable expenses are necessary: both chemical means of protection, and equipment, and repair base, and human resources. And ourselves on the Brest region, according to Oblselkhozprod, in the spring for a sowing campaign did not have about 2,5 thousand machine operators. Whom then to send to Russia? Whether it is better to enclose these means in our lands, chtokba at us the arable land did not grow with weeds and we did not slide for a harvest of 15 c/hectare?

According to official statistics, for the first half of the year 2000 on collective farms and goskhoza of Kobrin district the cultivated area on the harvest eve of the current year decreased by 2%, and these are 1000 hectares, plus the population seeded 1611 hectares less – already more than 2 thousand hectares are not used. Let's hope that these lands do not grow with weeds. Though weeds in certain villages and in fields of crop rotations because of our poverty and mismanagement cover cultural plants and country farmsteads.
I think, in the beginning it is necessary to bring order at himself, and then to go to develop others lands.
Of course, Russians agree to give the empty areas to processing. Even for a small payment it is favorable to them. But kakiyeon owners if got a heathland on such fertile lands? And to what we at them go to study – me somehow unclear.
I talked over with several heads, Experts and machine operators from four a hozyaystvrayonan a subject of development of Oryol lands. Answers are different.
The chairman of collective farm of "Zvyazd" agrees to go there and thinks what put favorable. Though does not know terms of the contract.
The elderly chief agronomist too not against romanticism in foreign lands, but if to it it is 20 years less...
The chairman of collective farm "Magdalinsky" not against to send couple of machine operators to earnings, but it is no more. Good and houses will fit. And drunkards and the poor and there will not cope but only they will ruin both business, and equipment.
So others lands – a controversial issue.
Still, acting on BST, Vasily Dolgolev spoke about bankrupt collective farm which lands are estimated at 17 points. This collective farm just in Kobrin district. I called there and found out the following. Yes, documents are processed to bankruptcy. But whether worse at them, than at all in the area? Arable lands of 772 hectares, grain wedge about 500 hectares. 200 people working and 400 people of pensioners. There are about 300 country farmsteads. Collective farmers hold cows, pigs, and for processing of personal plots is available in private use of 70 horses. The wages for May was already paid out here, and some "middling persons" in the area for date of writing of article and hardly managed to pay for April. However, according to the report in the regional newspaper, productivity of grain in this collective farm of 15 c/hectare, but, for example, in collective farm of Chkalov – only 11, and in Patriki agricultural firm – 22 c/hectare. And there not very long ago the arable land was estimated at 50 points and more (as speak in the people – garden lands).
Probably, it is necessary to think about bankrupt collective farm with the name "Krasnayazvyazda": to set it with the wood or to make the necessary capital investments and not to let on the world of 600 adults, not to send them to develop Russian lands.
 

Brestsky Kuryer newspaper, No. 34 (494), August, 2000.

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