Lukashenko: safekeeping of crops and machinery is number one issue for agricultural workers
As noted by the Head of State at a meeting in Postavy focusing on the work of agro-industrial associations of the Vitebsk Region, the safekeeping of machinery is the number one issue for Belarusian farmers
“You are getting a lot of energy-saturated equipment, and any machinery is valued. If you fail to store it properly…. When passing by a machine yard, my heart sometimes hurts: everything is broken and ruined, and a new tractor or a new combine harvester is in the midst of it. Why are we giving this equipment to such farms? A farm needs to work five years to buy it. Therefore, safekeeping of equipment, especially energy–saturated tractors, is the number one issue,” the Head of State stressed.
The President recalled his trip to the Myadel District: an exemplary machine yard had been created on the site of the old one at the local Minskoblagroservice agricultural branch.
“We should strive for this. It was not expensive. A grain dryer should be the same as there. This is called ‘creating a farm from scratch’. Somewhere they have reached such a level that they actually need to be revived from scratch. A machine yard, a grain dryer and dairy complexes are needed. Commercial dairy complexes are especially topical for the Vitebsk Region. If you decide to have a poultry house or a pigsty somewhere, that's your business. We will probably not build pig and poultry complexes in the Vitebsk Region anymore. Let us focus on milk and cattle, since these will occupy all people here. This is our path! True, the result will not be immediate, but we will make a breakthrough in five years – if we clench our teeth. A milking complex will appear on the site of the old farm, if there is enough feed around. We will adapt the rest for calves, and so on. Another cowhouse should be added to the existing two; after doing this, we will get milk,” the Head of State noted.
Aleksandr Lukashenko concluded, “Safekeeping of crops and machinery envisages discipline. No one will accept complaints about the rigidity of the requirements. We need a result. Let us better fight by peaceful means rather than hold a machine gun in our hands.”
