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[00:02:17] Belarusian and Arab parliaments signed a memorandum of understanding, which
[00:02:21] will become an inter-parliamentary bridge that will connect
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[00:06:22] We are in the fields of the peasant farm
[00:06:25] Nakhodka Polessye in the agro-town of Tyshkovichi,
[00:06:28] the capital of tulips, that's what we informally
[00:06:31] call our agro-town and generally in the Brest
[00:06:35] region, everyone knows us, not only in the Brest
[00:06:39] region, but also calls us the capital, the initiator.
[00:06:42] of the creation was my
[00:06:45] husband, Valery Nikolaevich, we
[00:06:48] initially, when we got married, lived in
[00:06:51] the city of Pinsk. We had several acquaintances who
[00:06:55] grew a small number
[00:06:57] of tulips. My husband was very
[00:07:00] interested in this topic. At that
[00:07:04] time, there was no demand for tulips in Belarus. And
[00:07:08] the next year we already had 700
[00:07:11] tulips growing in
[00:07:15] our backyard in Pinsk. Then everything went into
[00:07:19] geometric progression. The next
[00:07:22] year we grew 17 thousand. I was
[00:07:25] shocked. I was so
[00:07:28] scared. But they say that courage
[00:07:31] takes cities. We didn't have the opportunity to grow more tulips in
[00:07:34] our backyard in Pinsk. We are residents
[00:07:38] , natives of the agro-town
[00:07:41] Tyshkovichi, we decided to return to
[00:07:44] Tyshkovichi, here we have a larger backyard and
[00:07:48] to grow more tulips. We built
[00:07:51] a greenhouse in the backyard where
[00:07:54] my mother lived, we grew 300,000. We started
[00:07:58] growing tulip bulbs recently,
[00:08:01] literally three years ago. Here
[00:08:04] again, it is the merit of my husband
[00:08:07] that he managed to involve
[00:08:10] his sons, draw
[00:08:13] prospects for his sons,
[00:08:17] son-in-law,
[00:08:19] they became interested in this issue, and they are all
[00:08:23] advanced, so to speak, in a modern
[00:08:27] language, because we, maybe,
[00:08:31] if they hadn't participated in this production,
[00:08:35] wouldn't have achieved that.
[00:08:38] My husband is the main strategist of this farm.
[00:09:12] My nephew works in this
[00:09:16] farm with his wife, and I want to say that this
[00:09:19] is that strong backbone, who has
[00:09:22] an irregular working day,
[00:09:25] who set a goal, achieves
[00:09:28] it, not just as much as possible,
[00:09:32] but they live
[00:09:35] for the future, they see this future,
[00:09:38] they strive to live better, because ...
[00:10:12] and work little, but generally work
[00:10:15] ennobles. Everyone who comes to us says that they
[00:10:18] gain energy
[00:10:21] and enthusiasm from us, but we all like it.
[00:10:25] My sons and son-in-law, nephew
[00:10:28] never said that they don't like working here,
[00:10:32] they want to change
[00:10:35] jobs. Here, if
[00:10:38] you work, you work, but the places for recreation
[00:10:41] are unique. I want to say that in our
[00:10:45] Polissya there are very hardworking
[00:10:48] people. Each of our
[00:10:51] people, in the summer period, it is very difficult for us
[00:10:55] to find people for work, because everyone
[00:10:59] has their own backyard plots and they
[00:11:02] are not sown with grass, they are planted with
[00:11:05] blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. Almost
[00:11:09] everyone who is still at an
[00:11:12] age when they have the strength
[00:11:16] to work, takes an additional hectare or
[00:11:19] two hectares of land in the village council and plants
[00:11:23] early potatoes, cabbage.
[00:11:27] People do not imagine their
[00:11:30] life without work. A person works because he is used
[00:11:33] to working, because he works at home, and he
[00:11:36] works for us the way he works
[00:11:39] at home. I never thought I would return to
[00:11:42] the village, well, because life somehow
[00:11:45] develops like that, and to this day, by the way, it develops like that,
[00:11:49] that everyone strives for the city, and not only children
[00:11:53] strive for the city, all our parents, maybe because they worked
[00:11:57] hard, they reasoned like this, oh, you need to study and
[00:12:00] work somewhere in the city, where
[00:12:02] it's easier. At the moment,
[00:12:05] I want to say, life in
[00:12:08] the city and village does not differ much,
[00:12:12] well, at least, I mean our
[00:12:15] region, Tyshkovichi, Chmatal, everywhere
[00:12:18] asphalt, everyone has gas heating,
[00:12:22] electricity, a shop.
[00:12:26] Everything is within walking distance, at that moment, of course, it was not like that,
[00:12:30] so we also dreamed of the city, and
[00:12:34] I never thought that I would return to
[00:12:37] the village, never,
[00:12:41] but I dreamed that I would be the head of a kindergarten,
[00:12:45] I would have an
[00:12:48] apartment, so I tell everyone
[00:12:51] that what
[00:12:55] we achieved, of course, it was not me
[00:12:59] alone who achieved it, or not my husband, generally, our entire
[00:13:02] family, what we achieved,
[00:13:05] exceeded all my expectations. I did not
[00:13:09] expect that
[00:13:10] I
[00:13:14] would sit here
[00:13:17] in such a paradise, and this is really
[00:13:21] paradise,
[00:13:23] that I would have my own
[00:13:25] house,
[00:13:28] that I would have such smart
[00:13:32] children and
[00:13:33] son-in-law.
[00:13:37] I generally believe
[00:13:38] that
[00:13:42] everything that we have
[00:13:45] is a Klondike, yes, I generally consider
[00:13:48] myself a very happy woman.
[00:13:51] Happiness, it just comes in different sizes.
[00:13:55] From a hummock to Kazbek, depending on the person.
[00:13:59] For me, happiness is not a hummock,
[00:14:02] well, maybe not Kazbek, but
[00:14:06] this is also a high bar, high
[00:14:09] requirements, and I am happy.
[00:14:38] The Club of Editors for Belarus, this regional dimension
[00:14:42] of international cooperation is becoming one of the most breakthrough. It is not only
[00:14:46] a forum with Russia, but we know that China is very interested,
[00:14:49] Kazakhstan, our economies
[00:14:52] are complementary.
[00:15:25] This is not, Europe is occupied by our country, our military
[00:15:29] bases are there, our special services and the CIA and FBI work there
[00:15:32] as if at home. So, we can
[00:15:35] assume that this aggressive.
[00:17:45] We are a family of farmers from Kobrin district, Brest
[00:17:49] region, and you are currently at Dedov's farm "Khutora".
[00:18:03] We are engaged in the production of vegetables, mainly
[00:18:07] early vegetables. We are on the lawn
[00:18:11] near our greenhouse, the wide open spaces, and the farmer's house.
[00:18:14] We received this land back in 2015 in
[00:18:18] a very deplorable state, very neglected. Here there
[00:18:22] was a mixture of young forest and nascent
[00:18:26] landfills. Many local residents brought some
[00:18:29] construction debris here, and in order to start some
[00:18:33] work here, we had to
[00:18:35] work hard and not for one year. We gained our first experience in
[00:18:39] farming by working with my parents. They are also
[00:18:42] farmers, but they grow apples. We managed to work with them,
[00:18:46] try what it is like, work, at
[00:18:50] some point we decided to develop independently,
[00:18:53] separate, go our own way,
[00:18:56] having gained excellent experience, seeing how those very apples and various
[00:19:00] vegetables grow. The first crop in our farm was zucchini. We
[00:19:04] cultivated it on my wife's parents' farm.
[00:19:08] And to this day
[00:19:11] zucchini remains our number one,
[00:19:14] but since then we have not
[00:19:17] stopped experimenting, and thanks
[00:19:19] to this, we cultivate such
[00:19:23] crops as asparagus,
[00:19:25] zucchini, courgette, sweet corn,
[00:19:29] muscat pumpkins in a large assortment,
[00:19:32] also iceberg lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower,
[00:19:35] multicolored. Well, multicolored
[00:19:39] cabbages too. This season we
[00:19:41] will finish with
[00:19:45] apples.
[00:19:55] We are on one of the fields where
[00:19:58] an experiment is being carried out on such a crop as artichoke.
[00:20:02] You can see artichoke, a Mediterranean
[00:20:05] plant, which by...
[00:20:26] This is where our retail chains gladly help us, because it is a good tool for enabling as many
[00:20:30] customers and people
[00:20:32] as possible to get acquainted with this wonderful
[00:20:35] crop, which
[00:20:38] is very useful for digestion, for the liver,
[00:20:42] and in early spring, well, in early spring,
[00:20:45] in May, you can already enjoy this delicacy.
[00:20:50] Artichoke is a plant of the
[00:20:53] daisy family, so it is essentially a flower. Its main
[00:20:56] purpose is medicinal,
[00:21:00] and it is eaten as
[00:21:03] an inflorescence in a closed state.
[00:21:06] To prepare it,
[00:21:09] you need to peel off the leaves. The
[00:21:12] inflorescence of the plant is eaten in
[00:21:16] a closed form.
[00:21:18] It needs to be cut off with a stem about
[00:21:21] 4-5 cm long. This is
[00:21:24] how it looks. To prepare
[00:21:27] an artichoke, you need to clean it of leaves,
[00:21:30] get to the yellow ones, which are tender,
[00:21:33] young. Then we
[00:21:35] cut it in half, cut off
[00:21:39] the top part and clean out the fluff that is
[00:21:43] at the bottom. This bottom with short
[00:21:46] leaves is used in food for...
[00:21:50] Different recipes are used for preparing artichokes. It
[00:21:53] can be baked in the oven, it can be fried deliciously with
[00:21:56] garlic and stewed under a lid. We
[00:22:00] really like the second recipe, our family
[00:22:03] actively prepares artichokes this way. Artichoke is a very healthy
[00:22:07] plant for the liver, it is a good choleretic
[00:22:10] agent, and artichoke
[00:22:13] is a rather interesting plant in agricultural technology,
[00:22:17] we were prompted to cultivate it by
[00:23:20] saved it for insurance, re-sowed it
[00:23:23] this year, and new plants, so we are determined
[00:23:27] to continue our experiment and
[00:23:31] improve the health of our
[00:23:32] Belarusians.
[00:23:39] As far as we know from
[00:23:43] our experience, we were the first in the country to start
[00:23:46] cultivating artichokes,
[00:23:49] and so far for 4 years we have been the only ones.
[00:23:52] It would be interesting if there were
[00:23:56] other producers, because it's more interesting together,
[00:24:00] it would be great to exchange experiences,
[00:24:03] together, in a word, it's easier to achieve
[00:24:07] a goal. I would also like to add that
[00:24:10] the main product of artichoke
[00:24:14] is its inflorescence, in this form, but with a
[00:24:17] wonderful side effect at the end
[00:24:21] of the growing season are its flowers
[00:24:25] of a beautiful lilac purple
[00:24:29] color. They delight
[00:24:31] the hearts of lovely ladies.
[00:24:35] As experience has shown, Belarusian land
[00:24:38] is ready to accept any experiments,
[00:24:42] what is important is the seed and a lot
[00:24:45] of hard work.
[00:25:30] When we started the farm, well,
[00:25:33] it's easier to do
[00:25:36] business in the city, because people there
[00:25:39] don't know each other, they don't
[00:25:43] know who comes from which family, and they perceive
[00:25:46] all this more simply. When you start
[00:25:50] a business where you were born,
[00:25:54] people have some initial distrust,
[00:25:58] how can they, will they be able
[00:26:02] to organize all this, because well,
[00:26:06] people here are simpler, they are used
[00:26:10] to working themselves, not organizing work,
[00:26:13] working themselves physically,
[00:26:16] so I wouldn't say that anyone
[00:26:19] criticized us, but people
[00:26:23] initially treated our business
[00:26:26] with distrust. Another thought: who
[00:26:29] needs these flowers?
[00:26:33] and spending money, well, because, well, times
[00:26:36] change, views change,
[00:26:40] now it's completely different, now everyone in
[00:26:43] Tyshkovichi already has tulips
[00:26:46] growing in their yards,
[00:26:48] everyone comes to work for us in the winter
[00:26:51] under a contract to clean them,
[00:26:55] everyone admires them,
[00:26:58] when I meet some acquaintances
[00:27:03] from another locality,
[00:27:07] the world is small, people sometimes meet somewhere, travel together,
[00:27:11] rest together, lie in hospitals together, and
[00:27:14] it's nice when they say, oh, I was
[00:27:17] traveling with people from your village, I rested
[00:27:20] with people from your village, they spoke so well of you, and you have such beauty
[00:27:24] there, it's nice, it's nice, people
[00:27:28] have completely changed their opinion.
[00:27:32] Well, literally by 180 degrees
[00:27:36] in the opposite direction, now, on the contrary,
[00:27:40] people ask us, how do we plant correctly,
[00:27:43] and what do we feed them with, so that we have such high
[00:27:47] yields, that is, distrust has
[00:27:51] already turned, so to speak,
[00:27:55] into imitation, so to speak, the policy
[00:27:58] of our farm is that if people ask
[00:28:01] us something, we always...
[00:28:04] because from our own experience, let's say, if a person wants to achieve
[00:28:08] something, he will still
[00:28:10] achieve it. And if a person wants to achieve something, why
[00:28:14] not help him?
[00:28:17] Therefore, we must be kind in this world.
[00:28:21] As you sow, so shall you reap, and
[00:28:24] generally,
[00:28:27] we must do good, life is one. Now is such a world,
[00:28:31] that I want to wish... myself
[00:28:34] peace, peace. There will
[00:28:38] be peace. We are all
[00:28:41] hardworking,
[00:28:43] and my children, my grandchildren are growing
[00:28:45] up, and having lived
[00:28:49] , well, let's say, most of
[00:28:53] my life, already a large part, I believe that
[00:28:56] this is really the main thing - peace and health, and everything else depends on
[00:29:00] us.
[00:29:28] having experience of living in big
[00:29:31] cities such as Minsk, Brest,
[00:29:35] we really like Kobrin, especially our
[00:29:37] village, because we found our
[00:29:41] small piece of paradise on earth, we really like
[00:29:44] our way of
[00:29:47] life, a small city,
[00:29:50] close to the borders,
[00:29:54] compact, saturated with infrastructure,
[00:29:58] ideal for living. Every
[00:30:33] day for us is different from
[00:30:35] the previous one, everything changes, tasks change, weather
[00:30:39] changes, some new crops come,
[00:30:42] it's time to harvest from the fields, everything is different
[00:30:46] now. One evening we were driving home with Andrey,
[00:30:50] tired, barely able to drag our feet,
[00:30:53] we drive and complain to each other that we love this
[00:30:57] job so much that we don't feel the time to stop,
[00:31:01] because we like it so much, we want to continue
[00:31:04] and continue, as a result, you barely get home at
[00:31:08] 11 PM, it's still without regrets, without
[00:31:12] sorrow, it's still our favorite thing.
[00:31:45] for our body, our fuel, for our
[00:31:48] ideas, for our achievements,
[00:31:51] therefore we try to build the production
[00:31:54] process so that we have time
[00:31:57] to experiment, learn
[00:32:00] and make our food as healthy as
[00:32:04] possible in today's realities, because it's not simple, we
[00:32:07] grow vegetables in open ground, we always
[00:32:11] have to cope with many factors.
[00:32:15] Therefore, the main advantage, I believe, is that
[00:32:18] we,
[00:32:20] as
[00:32:22] individuals representing Dedovy Khutor, our
[00:32:25] family, we don't have our own
[00:32:28] beds. We boldly
[00:32:31] experiment, we grow vegetables
[00:32:35] for the body and also develop our
[00:32:38] territory for the soul, for ourselves and for those who visit
[00:32:42] our farm,
[00:32:44] therefore. I think that this is true love
[00:32:47] for the homeland, for people,
[00:32:49] for people, well, people are the country, so without
[00:32:53] people, nowhere.
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