The village of Poletnoye is not surprising with novelty. In recent years, here, in the Lazovskaya outback, a stadium has been built, a park has been laid out, and the square has been reconstructed. This year, a facility was introduced not for social, but for industrial purposes – a greenhouse complex. He grew up outside the village.
The complex includes 13 film greenhouses with a total area of 400 sq. m. In May, their assembly was completed, and planted peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers are already turning green under the film. Farmer Nikolai Pak does not hide his satisfaction: the transition to closed ground is truly a salvation from the frequent vicissitudes of the weather.
The greenhouse town is the result of the combined efforts of the farmer and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the region, which supports family farms with grants. And it’s not just about livestock. Crop production is also in the focus of attention. Last spring, Pak presented a business project and by the end of the year received 12.8 million rubles from the federal and regional budgets. Own investments amounted to 5.4 million. And then, in December, Nikolai immediately took up the search for metal and film. The first quarter of the coming year, when prices went up, did not frighten: building materials had already been purchased and were waiting for assembly.
Father’s house
Nikolay Pak is a farmer in the second generation. Before his eyes, in the same place, in Poletnoye, his father grew potatoes, vegetables, melons. Thanks to state support, Belarus acquired the MTZ-82 tractor.
Six years ago, Gennady Pak handed over the farm to his son. Showing the greenhouses, Nikolai did not fail to notice that the farm had grown another 20 hectares of arable land, and this acquisition was secured by Rosreestr.
– Planted watermelons. And the completion of planting potatoes migrated to June because of the rains,” he said about the situation with open ground.
Weather collisions do not cancel the plan – to collect 310 tons of vegetables this year. The farm is really a family business: the snow has not yet melted, and his wife Olga started growing seedlings. Of course, these are cucumbers and tomatoes, peppers and eggplants … They delight with the emerald color of the leaves in greenhouses, but Olga sells part of the seedlings in Khabarovsk at the weekend market.
Work for fellow villagers
Galina Poduzova, head of the department of small forms of farming of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, draws attention to the fact that not everyone who declares their intention to engage in agriculture is guaranteed state support.
– The business plan is considered by the regional commission, which includes specialists who have been working in the industry for decades. And any of them can immediately see who is counting on the grant funds – a knowledgeable person who has worked hard to raise the economy, or who wants to experiment, and not with their own money, but with the budget, – said Poduzova.
The same Pak appeared before the commission, justifying not only the size and number of greenhouses, but also the annual increase in yield with an output of 430 tons. It happens differently: the cost of acquiring livestock was calculated, but they forgot about feed. Or job creation is not taken seriously. Say, we can manage with the help of family members … Well, cope, but don’t count on a grant, since the federal act provides for the official employment of at least three people. The state also supports peasant farms so that rural residents do not have to go to distant lands in search of work.
– He took a married couple for planting and weeding in greenhouses. Told and showed what to do. In the morning I bring them to the place of work, in the evening, of course, I take them away. I pay 1,200 rubles a day,” Pak explained.
The plant is not a competitor
Since 2013, when the federal Ministry of Agriculture launched grant support for family farms, the region’s peasant farms have received almost 300 million rubles under this program. Much more has been invested, since the program is being implemented on the terms of co-financing. As a rule, 30% of our own funds are added to 70% of funds allocated on a competitive basis.
Oksana Aryankina, the head of a peasant farm from the village of Chernaya Rechka, Khabarovsk District, was among the first recipients of the grant. The farm specializes in dairy farming, and purebred young cattle were purchased with the grant funds. This allowed not only to increase milk yield, but also to organize processing.
Family farms from the villages of Ilyinka and Fedorovka in the same district, supported by grants, raise goats. And today, goat’s milk with medicinal properties can be bought in the retail chains of the regional center.
Family farms from the villages of Ilyinka and Fedorovka in the same district, supported by grants, raise goats. And today, goat’s milk with medicinal properties can be bought in the retail chains of the regional center.
The head of a peasant farm from the Bikinsky district, Natalia Kryuchek, with a grant, equipped, equipped and launched a slaughterhouse, the services of which are used by other pig farms, including personal subsidiary farms. The workshop produces dumplings and other semi-finished products.
Last year, a grant was awarded to Oksana Malozemova, the head of a peasant farm from the village of Pivan, Komsomolsky District. She is not embarrassed by the neighborhood with the city dairy plant: she increases the livestock and develops processing using budgetary and own funds.
The peasant-farm economy from the Okhotsk region did not go unnoticed either. It is implementing a project to develop horse breeding. The grant made it possible to build up a herd of Yakut horses that graze all year round.
A remarkable fact: in the territories of the region equated to the regions of the Far North, the share of budget funding when receiving a grant increases to 80%. And in Okhotsk and other regions of the Far North – up to 90%. The more domestic agricultural products there are, the less imports.
– In the north and in the south, there is only one problem – the lack of farmland. We are solving it with the involvement of the regional agricultural fund, which has land reclamation equipment. Plots of arable land overgrown with small forests, which are used by farmers, are cleared and become suitable for agricultural production, Galina Poduzova explained.
In a related way, in a businesslike way
There is a tendency to use capital to create family farms. So, Nikolai Skalyuk, who was engaged in sales, and his wife Yulia Lopatina revived dairy farming in the village of Korsakovo-1 in the Khabarovsk district – the very one in which the central estate of the Krasnorechensky state farm was located. Cowsheds have been restored, young animals have been purchased, and farmlands are being returned to circulation both on their own and on grant funds.
Armen Karamyan from the village of Sosnovka in the same region devoted more than one year to the construction and trade business. Today, his wife Hasmik is the head of a peasant farm that breeds turkeys. The growing farm was recently visited by Mikhail Degtyarev, and Armen expertly told the governor about the plans to create a breeding stock.
Alexander Starienko is a well-known business executive in the Ulchi region. He has a diversified business, which includes trade, logging, gas stations. His son Kirill is the head of a peasant farm that received a grant for the development of beef cattle breeding.
– Experienced entrepreneurs come to realize that there is no better investment than in agriculture. Needs for goods and services may change, but food supply will always come first, states Galina Poduzova.
