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[00:01:13] heels, along with it, the time for big calculations, where
[00:01:16] every ear, every grain is under control.
[00:01:20] Time, money, machine operators don't miss a single good
[00:01:23] day, they work as a team for a common result. Why
[00:01:27] do good balers even exist, in order to essentially
[00:01:30] store and harvest fodder qualitatively, like this, in rolls, they can stand for up to 9
[00:01:34] months, the Belarusian agro-industrial complex needs almost 300 such machines per
[00:01:37] year, starting next year, they promise to collect
[00:01:40] 50. At the forefront, the names of harvest heroes light up, in
[00:01:44] Brest, new lights of import substitution. In order not to
[00:01:47] lose the production site and people, the direct tasks that are
[00:01:51] set for the plant are to modernize faster, increase
[00:01:53] the degree of localization, simply, more of our own, we need to
[00:01:57] decide what we ourselves...
[00:04:00] to water, earth, sun.
[00:04:04] Not everything comes at once, I
[00:04:10] realized that this world is filled with patience and
[00:04:13] perseverance. Each stage is important:
[00:04:16] plant a seed, feed it, wait until
[00:04:20] it grows, protect it, harvest the fruits,
[00:04:23] hope for the best.
[00:04:26] One sprout, planted
[00:04:31] and grown by
[00:04:34] you, can teach more than
[00:04:37] a book or
[00:04:38] a movie.
[00:04:44] My name is Artemiy Milnikov, I am the founder of the Agrolukomal crop
[00:04:47] complex. Our task is to grow
[00:04:51] useful, environmentally friendly, berry
[00:04:53] crops.
[00:05:18] I had no previous experience in agriculture, but I had
[00:05:22] experience in various industries, such as construction, IT,
[00:05:25] digital medicine. This experience definitely came in handy in
[00:05:29] implementing this
[00:05:30] project.
[00:05:34] In fact, it doesn't matter what industry, all
[00:05:37] principles are the same, you need to bring
[00:05:40] benefit, you need to create. create value
[00:05:44] efficiently,
[00:05:47] the industry is not so important, the
[00:05:49] approach is important, try to compress
[00:05:53] the time for the project, what does that mean? We
[00:05:56] could have started with my brother with a small plantation of
[00:05:59] 1-2-3 hectares for about
[00:06:03] 15-20 years to grow to 80, just organically,
[00:06:06] but time is not money, time is much more expensive.
[00:06:10] Therefore, investments
[00:06:15] are the way that saved us
[00:06:18] 15-20 years of our lives.
[00:06:21] We are
[00:06:29] in the center of our plantation,
[00:06:31] this is 45 hectares of blackcurrant, 12
[00:06:35] hectares of honeysuckle and 10
[00:06:38] hectares of blueberries.
[00:06:40] We oriented our rows relative to the directions
[00:06:44] of the world, north-south, in order for the plant to
[00:06:47] receive the maximum amount of sunlight throughout
[00:06:51] the day. A tractor,
[00:06:54] navigation, and autopilot helped us with this, which
[00:06:57] allows us to flawlessly make
[00:07:00] perfectly even rows.
[00:07:07] We planted honeysuckle because it's
[00:07:10] returning to the market.
[00:07:13] It's such a natural Slavic traditional
[00:07:16] berry that was actually
[00:07:18] forgotten,
[00:07:21] people even forgot this name, now it's
[00:07:23] actively returning to
[00:07:26] the market, and blueberries
[00:07:29] are already a traditional berry for
[00:07:31] Belarus, only 400 hectares
[00:07:35] have been planted in the country, it would have been a sin
[00:07:38] not to implement this experience on my
[00:07:41] plantation.
[00:07:50] Blackcurrant is the most stable berry
[00:07:53] in industry, traditionally,
[00:07:56] every second jar of
[00:07:58] jam,
[00:08:02] the berries on our plantation are simply a treasure trove of
[00:08:06] vitamins, these are all incredibly useful crops,
[00:08:08] blackcurrant is like... we've known about vitamin C since
[00:08:12] childhood,
[00:08:14] honeysuckle is generally
[00:08:16] the berry of life, a rejuvenating berry, they call it all sorts of
[00:08:20] things, it's believed that if you eat honeysuckle, then
[00:08:23] the body rejuvenates, cells rejuvenate,
[00:08:26] just like blueberries, it's a huge
[00:08:29] complex of various vitamins,
[00:08:32] everything, everything that a person needs,
[00:08:36] it's all in blueberries.
[00:08:39] In order
[00:08:44] to grow a certain crop, we
[00:08:47] need to know as much as
[00:08:49] possible about it.
[00:08:52] I inspected the mother plant of currants, the condition is
[00:08:55] good, there are no harmful insects, virtually no diseases
[00:08:59] either, well, there are some problems with
[00:09:01] nutrition, the leaves are a bit pale,
[00:09:05] this means there's a lack of iron, so we need to add
[00:09:08] a certain amount to our feeding system.
[00:09:42] exactly the set of trace elements
[00:09:46] that it needs for growth, development,
[00:09:49] and fruiting.
[00:09:53] Agronomy is not mathematics, it is
[00:09:56] an art, a creative process in which
[00:10:00] you can look at several agronomists' views,
[00:10:03] choose the one that is most likely to suit
[00:10:07] a specific field.
[00:10:10] How's the situation? Everything's good. Tomorrow we'll plan fertigation
[00:10:14] feeding, fertigation works,
[00:10:17] of course, it depends on the crop, the
[00:10:20] region, the field you're in, everything
[00:10:23] is as flexible as possible, you need to make decisions
[00:10:26] on the spot.
[00:10:30] 7.5 km of drip
[00:10:33] irrigation main has been laid, 200
[00:10:36] km of drip tubing has been run to each
[00:10:39] bush, we irrigate through a pumping
[00:10:43] station, water comes from a technical
[00:10:47] reservoir, here's
[00:10:49] a radio tower,
[00:10:52] which can be used to send a signal.
[00:10:55] You can turn on a separate
[00:10:58] sector or several at once via the app
[00:11:01] on your phone.
[00:11:05] This is the heart of our plantation, the pumping
[00:11:08] station, through which both irrigation
[00:11:12] and fertigation pass, that is, the
[00:11:15] nutrition of our
[00:11:17] plants.
[00:11:21] Each berry crop requires different nutrition,
[00:11:25] different acidity, some substances
[00:11:28] cannot be mixed, so there is a
[00:11:32] sequential flushing of both tanks and
[00:11:36] pumps,
[00:11:42] just like a human, a plant is a living creature, it cannot drink
[00:11:45] absolutely any water, we also don't drink dirty
[00:11:49] water or try to avoid hard water,
[00:11:52] so we care.
[00:12:26] I advise buying
[00:12:33] berries or fruits from
[00:12:36] verified producers who have a staff of
[00:12:40] agronomists, fertigation installations, where all
[00:12:42] waiting periods for the preparations they use are observed, who correctly mix
[00:12:46] fertilizers, they will have the cleanest
[00:12:49] berry, unlike the alpha, private
[00:12:53] farmsteads where berries are grown, a person who
[00:12:56] uses protective agents, does not observe waiting periods,
[00:13:00] uses preparations with a long waiting period of
[00:13:03] 30-40 days, on the next day harvests the berries and
[00:13:07] takes them to the market, all people think that
[00:13:10] they bought fresh, natural,
[00:13:13] safe, but in fact it's.
[00:13:17] We, having studied the experience of both organic
[00:13:21] and industrial production, created such
[00:13:25] a biologized process for growing our
[00:13:27] products, that is, in any case, we
[00:13:31] process, but we do it in a
[00:13:35] minimal mode, at the same time we try to
[00:13:38] use as much biology as possible, bacteria
[00:13:41] create nutrition for plants,
[00:13:44] what is natural is not
[00:13:47] capable, what is created by man is
[00:13:50] effective.
[00:13:52] To become
[00:13:56] a farmer in Belarus, you need to get
[00:13:59] land, choose a niche in which you will
[00:14:03] work, decide on
[00:14:05] the budget you have for this implementation. Closer
[00:14:09] to Minsk it's more difficult, because many lands are already
[00:14:12] occupied.
[00:14:16] You can get land from the state for
[00:14:19] use, peasant farms may
[00:14:23] not pay land tax. For the most part, it's practically
[00:14:26] free.
[00:14:30] Ideally, for crop production, choose a plot with
[00:14:33] appropriate relief and soil
[00:14:36] quality.
[00:14:41] We didn't have a natural reservoir, so we
[00:14:45] dug
[00:14:46] one.
[00:14:51] It's not always possible to find the ideal
[00:14:54] option. You can always
[00:14:56] adapt.
[00:15:00] In the reservoir, groundwater requires
[00:15:03] additional purification and
[00:15:04] preparation.
[00:15:07] Accordingly, water flows through a pump
[00:15:10] from the reservoir to the pump house, where it is filtered
[00:15:13] and prepared.
[00:15:17] The volume of this reservoir is 4
[00:15:21] cubic meters. We pump out 1,000 cubic meters
[00:15:25] per day to irrigate our entire
[00:15:28] plantation.
[00:15:32] if we don't measure with finances, but with pure
[00:15:35] value, then the human contribution is conventionally
[00:15:39] 1% of the energy that we put into
[00:15:41] the earth, 99% of the energy is
[00:15:45] the sun, the earth itself, water, we
[00:15:48] don't value this, but it's
[00:15:50] true,
[00:15:53] it seems to us that this 1% that we invested is a lot,
[00:15:57] but in fact, I hope that the sun
[00:16:00] tax will not be introduced, but it gives us a lot.
[00:16:03] Harvest
[00:16:27] August is coming, and with it, the time
[00:16:30] for big calculations, where every ear, every
[00:16:33] grain is under control, time, money, machine operators.
[00:16:37] They use every good day, working as a team for a common
[00:16:41] result. Why are good balers even needed, essentially to
[00:16:45] properly store and harvest fodder. In rolls like this, they can
[00:16:48] stand for up to 9 months. The Belarusian agro-industrial complex needs almost
[00:16:52] 300 such machines per year, starting next year,
[00:16:55] they promise to collect 50. At the forefront,
[00:16:58] the names of the harvest heroes light up, in Brest, new lights of
[00:17:01] import substitution. In order not to lose both the production site
[00:17:05] and people, the direct tasks that are set for the plant.
[00:19:04] agronomists' day season can start at 4:00 AM. because
[00:19:08] there are a number of care treatments that
[00:19:10] happen very early in the morning, before
[00:19:14] the sun comes out, or very late
[00:19:17] at night,
[00:19:20] even when you're sleeping, you still dream of
[00:19:23] currants,
[00:19:28] Hello, Vladimir, hello, how much do you still
[00:19:31] intend to haul, no, it's all over, I need to go home already, and
[00:19:35] tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be complaining?
[00:19:37] And how much is there in total in the field? Well, there's still some, but about 30, 38.
[00:19:52] Traveling around the world, I observed that time in
[00:19:55] different territories moves differently, for some it is now
[00:19:59] the 16th century, for some it is already
[00:20:01] the 200th.
[00:20:06] As for the future,
[00:20:10] we try to replace as many people as possible with automation,
[00:20:13] mechanization,
[00:20:19] if before everything had to be done by hand, now
[00:20:23] we have a whole ensemble of tools
[00:20:26] and devices that allow us to process
[00:20:29] and care for the plantation faster, easier,
[00:20:32] more efficiently.
[00:20:35] Due to the fact that we have a large
[00:20:39] plot of land, we go hand-in-hand with
[00:20:41] technology.
[00:20:46] Some treatments are necessary foliar, drone
[00:20:50] is an ideal solution for such feedings. The drone
[00:20:53] operates in automatic mode, first
[00:20:57] a mapping drone passes, which creates
[00:21:00] a map of the area with boundaries, with each
[00:21:04] tree, everything is
[00:21:05] recorded.
[00:21:10] And then a drone flies out that sprays
[00:21:13] and scatters fertilizers and reagents along the laid
[00:21:16] route.
[00:21:20] In 8 minutes, it can spray 40
[00:21:23] liters of reagents over the field, in
[00:21:27] 5 hours it completely processes our plantation of
[00:21:30] 80
[00:21:31] hectares.
[00:21:38] this year we planted 1 hectare of
[00:21:41] strawberries, this is the fastest berry in
[00:21:45] terms of harvest delivery,
[00:21:47] literally 6-7 weeks after planting
[00:21:51] in spring, it produces the first berries.
[00:22:04] the size largely depends on the variety, also
[00:22:08] on the weather and feeding, of course,
[00:22:10] but in the first year, the largest
[00:22:13] berry caliber can be
[00:22:15] obtained.
[00:22:21] In terms of taste, the varieties differ
[00:22:24] greatly, my wife likes Asia,
[00:22:27] I, for example, like the Juicy
[00:22:29] variety.
[00:22:34] We are actively selling it now, gaining first experience with this
[00:22:38] berry. Man artificially
[00:22:41] led the farmer to create beautiful
[00:22:45] products, convenient for storage, that
[00:22:49] could lie in the refrigerator for a long time and nothing would happen to them, also
[00:22:52] tasty,
[00:22:56] but this is not related to naturalness,
[00:23:00] usefulness,
[00:23:03] organic food, there's less of it, it's less
[00:23:06] presentable,
[00:23:09] nature basically doesn't try to create something
[00:23:12] ideal, it creates
[00:23:14] viable things, a person wants
[00:23:18] beautiful, useful,
[00:23:20] and cheap, but simultaneously implementing this
[00:23:24] is impossible, most likely it will be expensive, not
[00:23:28] beautiful, but useful, and this
[00:23:30] is organic, therefore, with our
[00:23:33] choice, we can shape what kind of product farmers
[00:23:37] will grow, a strawberry fruit is not
[00:23:40] a berry, it is considered a false berry, because
[00:23:44] in reality the fruit is called a aggregate
[00:23:48] achene.
[00:23:53] The berry must be harvested at full ripeness. The berry should be evenly
[00:23:57] colored, and firm to the touch.
[00:24:00] There are
[00:24:03] varieties that have a white tip, but that doesn't mean it's
[00:24:07] unripe, it's just a varietal characteristic. In open
[00:24:10] ground, in our conditions, strawberries are usually picked every other day,
[00:24:14] this is the optimal period of time for them to ripen. If
[00:24:17] you pick berries in the rain, they won't be.
[00:24:23] After picking, strawberries need to be chilled, but we don't
[00:24:27] chill them too much, to +15°C.
[00:24:31] They are stored for a maximum of one night, because
[00:24:34] there are enough orders, and they are quickly
[00:24:36] picked up.
[00:24:40] In my opinion, the future of the agricultural
[00:24:44] sector lies with agricultural holdings or with
[00:24:47] agricultural cooperatives; small
[00:24:50] farmers will most likely not withstand competition if they cannot
[00:24:54] unite,
[00:24:57] because in unity they can have synergistic
[00:25:00] effects in terms of purchasing fertilizers
[00:25:03] and components, they can share equipment,
[00:25:07] if they don't learn to do this, they will have to
[00:25:10] yield their place to large organizations.
[00:25:14] for a person, this is a negative aspect, because the farmer
[00:25:17] is directly in contact...
[00:25:50] somewhere far away, but he perfectly covers
[00:25:54] the tactical daily issues of our plantation's
[00:25:57] life.
[00:26:01] We have. who are ambassadors of our
[00:26:05] enterprise, and they attract a lot of attention
[00:26:09] on social networks, because they are
[00:26:13] soulful, people really lack this
[00:26:16] contact with nature.
[00:26:18] More and
[00:26:26] more people come to us with the opportunity
[00:26:29] to feed the animals, walk with them. Large
[00:26:33] territory,
[00:26:35] as my brother says, we are creating a private
[00:26:39] reserve here.
[00:26:44] Initially, our livestock direction, yes, our
[00:26:48] farm started with the fact that we inherited
[00:26:51] what I would call a burden, these
[00:26:54] bull calves, which we eventually used for good,
[00:26:58] because any minus can be turned into a plus and something cool can be made. Now we have a tourist destination where
[00:27:05] people can come and communicate with our already fully contactable
[00:27:09] bulls. I hope in the future we
[00:27:12] will still be able to adopt the experience of our Texan colleagues and be able to
[00:27:15] break in one of the bulls, or maybe all of them, this is my long-standing
[00:27:19] dream.
[00:27:20] In addition
[00:27:24] to our cows, we also have Kamori goats, Pakistani
[00:27:27] goats – these are the most big-eared goats in the world, a distinctive feature
[00:27:31] is that they give a lot of milk, 8 liters a day, plus their milk
[00:27:35] absolutely does not smell, just like the processed products of this
[00:27:38] milk.
[00:27:41] Here is one of our firstborns - a Kamori goat named
[00:27:45] Pak. Why Pak? Because its homeland is
[00:27:47] Pakistan. There are probably no more than
[00:27:51] twenty such goats in Belarus, and 10
[00:27:54] of them are on our farm, that is, essentially, we are the largest
[00:27:57] breeder of Kamori goats in Belarus at the moment.
[00:28:00] Many
[00:28:06] ask why we call ourselves a reserve, because we have 2
[00:28:10] hectares of forest, more than 10 hectares of open fields
[00:28:13] for these beauties to graze, they are constantly free
[00:28:16] grazing, so we created conditions as close as possible to
[00:28:20] the natural environment, at the same time we do not remove human
[00:28:24] care. More than half of our reserve's
[00:28:27] livestock are rescued animals, and we rescued
[00:28:31] them not without the help of our subscribers, we are expanding
[00:28:35] by approximately 100 hectares this year and will possibly launch
[00:28:38] an entire project to rescue farm animals that have fallen into
[00:28:41] food.
[00:28:44] Every weekend my family loves to spend
[00:28:48] time here, because animals fill
[00:28:51] them with impressions for the whole
[00:28:53] week.
[00:29:01] The biggest punishment for my son is if you tell him
[00:29:04] that this Saturday he won't go to
[00:29:06] the farm.
[00:29:10] There is such an opinion that every Belarusian has
[00:29:14] a desire to start their own farmstead by retirement, probably,
[00:29:16] I realized it in this way.
[00:29:20] This is not an easy
[00:29:25] job, every day there are some
[00:29:27] challenges, because the weather changes.
[00:29:31] we can measure,
[00:30:02] I wanted to do something that would take many years
[00:30:06] to do something creative on
[00:30:09] a permanent basis,
[00:30:11] agriculture is about that.
[00:30:14] If we look at the values that exist
[00:30:18] in the world, then all of them are born from
[00:30:21] the sun, water, air, and earth. Therefore,
[00:30:24] this is the base. it starts.