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Record order of cilantro
The manager of the Kalitva agricultural enterprise in the village of Mankovo-Kalitvenskoye, Pyotr Shchus, has been farming for 47 years, but he does not remember that the enterprise received such a large order for the cultivation of cilantro.
Piotr Shchus is setting up coriander seeders. Photo: AiF / Vitaly Kolbasin
“In previous years, 50-100 hectares of coriander were sown, but now we have received an order ten times larger in area - for one and a half thousand hectares,” says Piotr Shchus, setting up seeders for this crop.
He associates such an unexpected high demand for coriander seeds, which are used in pharmaceuticals and preservatives, with the ban on their import into the country from Europe and America, where this crop is grown commercially.
The specialist adds: "In Soviet times, coriander was forced to grow at all, because the crop is considered a parasite, it is difficult to maintain."
In the north of the region, the technician is just preparing to enter the field. Photo: AiF / Vitaly Kolbasin
If grocery wheat is sown in the same field next year, it will smell of coriander, and it will not be accepted for sale, so you have to carefully cultivate the land after cilantro.
What will the villagers benefit from
The chief engineer of Kalitva, Vladimir Chebotarev, joins our conversation.
“We are trying to make money on something new, because the price for all crops changes little, for wheat the price has been stable for several years, and costs are increasing, the land is depleted,” he comments.
Vladimir Chebotarev plans to stake in 2015 on corn and sunflower Photo: AiF / Vitaly Kolbasin
The villagers of Mankovo-Kalitvensky find it difficult to compete with their colleagues from the south of the region. In the northern lands, due to climatic features, the cost of growing grain is higher than in the south. If the yield in the north of the region is 20-25 centners per hectare, then in the south of the region it reaches 100 centners per hectare. That is why it is up to the farmers of "Kalitva" to take on any orders that bring profit.
“One culture cannot be planted, otherwise there is a big risk of losing, we plant seven crops, alternating them,” Vladimir Ivanovich reveals the secret.
The market itself determines which crops to plant. At one time the flax was good for the villagers. Many began to grow it, and the following year, supply exceeded demand. There is no production of flax processing in the region, everything is imported, so those who did not manage to send the culture abroad lost.
Last preparations for sowing are underway at Kalitva Photo: AiF / Vitaly Kolbasin
Vladimir Chebotarev knocks down the commercial results of 2014: “Corn last year worked to zero, like grain, the profit, as always, came from sunflower.Peas did not disappoint, but flax is at a loss, soybeans are at a big loss. "
This year the enterprise started sowing early spring crops, oats, barley and chickpeas, but the chickpeas were cut down and turned out to be unclaimed. We have reduced flax sowing area, this spring more, almost twice, corn will be sown.
People will be replaced by technology
It is difficult for farmers to show good results without new technologies and modern machines, so last year Kalitva invested 55 million rubles in the development of infrastructure and the purchase of equipment.
Don farmers are ready for the battle for the harvest. Photo: AiF / Vitaly Kolbasin
The agrofirm now has an additional hangar, a covered floor, asphalt areas, two grain cleaning complexes ("head").
Without them, the grain was finalized for two weeks, and this is the cost of energy, human resources, but with the new technology of the "controllers" of "KamAZ" with a trailer, it is serviced within 20 minutes.
This will significantly reduce the cost of the final product.
“There are not enough people in the field, they can only be replaced by productive equipment,” sums up the chief engineer of the enterprise Vladimir Chebotarev.
In 2014, the farmers of the Don raised a record grain harvest since the 1990s, having harvested 9 million 520 thousand tons. This is a great merit of the villagers of the northern regions, who this year, taking advantage of the lack of precipitation, went out into the field earlier than usual in order to preserve moisture in the soil and with the hope of repeating the high indicators of last year.
