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00:01:54We are in the fields of the peasant farm
00:01:58Nakhodka Polesie in the agro-town. Tyshkovichi, in the capital
00:02:01of tulips, that's what we
00:02:04unofficially our agro-town, and generally
00:02:07in the Brest region, everyone already knows us, not only in the Brest region, but they call
00:02:11it the capital. The initiator
00:02:14of its creation was my
00:02:17husband, Valery Nikolaevich. We
00:02:20initially, when we got married, lived in
00:02:23Pinsk. We had several acquaintances who
00:02:27grew them in small quantities.
00:02:37My husband became very interested in this topic at that time, and there was no demand for tulips in Belarus yet. The next
00:02:40year, we already grew 700 tulips
00:02:44in our household plot
00:02:48in Pinsk, and then everything went in
00:02:51geometric progression. The next year
00:02:55we grew 17, I was
00:02:57in shock, I was so scared,
00:03:00but they say, courage takes cities, the opportunity
00:03:03to grow more tulips on the household plot in Pinsk, we
00:03:06didn't have it, we are
00:03:10residents and natives of the agro-town
00:03:13of Tyshkovichi, we decided to return to
00:03:16Tyshkovichi, there is a bigger household plot here and
00:03:20to grow more tulips, we built
00:03:23a greenhouse on the household plot, where
00:03:26my mother lived, we grew 300,000.
00:04:00modern, because maybe
00:04:03we, if they hadn't participated in this production
00:04:07and hadn't achieved that,
00:04:11my husband is the main strategist of this
00:04:13farm. We met
00:04:16the Dutch,
00:04:19close cooperation was established, they pushed us to
00:04:23grow tulip
00:04:26bulbs, not tulips, but bulbs, because
00:04:29we... didn't dare, everyone said that in our
00:04:32lands, not in Belarus, we don't have such a climate, that
00:04:35they tried, that they tried in Russia, it
00:04:38doesn't work, the humidity is not
00:04:41the same, the winters are not the same.
00:04:45My nephew works on this farm with
00:04:48his wife, and I want to say, this is that strong
00:04:52core, who has an irregular working
00:04:56day, who set
00:04:59a goal... achieves it,
00:05:02not just as much as possible, but
00:05:05they live for the future, they see
00:05:09this future, they strive to live
00:05:13better, because Belarus is
00:05:16truly a country for life. Anyone
00:05:20who wants to achieve something, who
00:05:23truly wants to work, has
00:05:27the opportunity to work and achieve. Many do not
00:05:30want to go to the countryside because
00:05:34they think it might be hard to work here.
00:05:38It's really not easy to work, because somehow...
00:05:40the places
00:06:12for recreation are unique. I want
00:06:15to say that we have very hardworking
00:06:19people in Polesia. In the summer
00:06:21period, it is very difficult
00:06:25to find people to work because
00:06:29everyone has their own household plots
00:06:33and they are planted not with grass, they
00:06:36are planted with blueberries, raspberries,
00:06:39strawberries. Almost everyone... who
00:06:42is still at that
00:06:44age when they have the strength
00:06:48to work, takes an additional hectare or
00:06:52two hectares of land in the village council, plants
00:06:55early potatoes, cabbage.
00:06:59People cannot imagine life without
00:07:02work. A person works because they are used
00:07:05to working, because they work at home, and they
00:07:08work for us the way they work
00:07:11at home. I never thought that I would return to
00:07:14the village, well, because somehow - that's
00:07:17how life turns out, and to this day, by the way, it still turns out
00:07:21that everyone strives for the city, and not only children
00:07:25strive for the city, even our parents, maybe because they worked
00:07:29hard, they reasoned, oh, I need to study and
00:07:32work somewhere in the city, where
00:07:34it's easier. At the moment,
00:07:37I want to say, life in
00:07:41the city and in the village differs
00:07:44little, well, at least I mean our
00:07:47region, here is Tishkov Chematal, asphalt
00:07:50everywhere, everyone has gas heating,
00:07:54electricity,
00:07:56shops, everything is within
00:07:59walking distance. At that time, of course, it was not like that, so we
00:08:03also dreamed of the city, and I never
00:08:07thought that I would return to the village,
00:08:10never, but...
00:08:13I dreamed that I would be the head of a kindergarten,
00:08:17I would have
00:08:20an apartment. So I tell everyone
00:08:23that what we
00:08:26achieved,
00:08:29of course, it was not me alone who achieved it or my husband, but
00:08:32generally our whole family, what
00:08:36we achieved exceeded all my
00:08:39expectations, I did not expect
00:08:42that
00:08:46I would sit here
00:08:49in such a paradise, and it is truly
00:08:53paradise,
00:08:55that I would have my own
00:08:57house,
00:09:00that I would have such intelligent
00:09:04children and
00:09:05a son-in-law.
00:09:09I generally believe that...
00:09:14everything that we have
00:09:17is a Klondike,
00:09:20yes, I generally consider myself a very happy woman,
00:09:23happiness is just
00:09:27from a bump to a summit, depending on the
00:09:30person. For me, happiness is not
00:09:32a bump, well, maybe not
00:09:36a summit, but it's also a high
00:09:39bar, high demands and... I'm happy.
00:10:14of Life" is on air. Fate endowed our hero with many
00:10:17talents. He sings, writes music, creates arrangements
00:11:45We are a family of farmers from Kobrin district, Brest
00:11:48region, and you are at the Dedovakhutora
00:11:51farm.
00:12:02We are engaged in the production of vegetables, mainly
00:12:06early vegetables.
00:12:08We are located on the lawn near our greenhouse
00:12:11and farmer's house. We received this land back in
00:12:152015, in a very deplorable state, very
00:12:19neglected, and here there was a mix of young
00:12:22forest and a nascent...
00:12:25dump. Many local residents brought some
00:12:28construction waste here, and in order to start any
00:12:32work here, we had
00:12:34to work hard for more than a year. We gained our first experience in
00:12:38farming by working with my parents, they are also
00:12:42farmers, but they grow apples. We managed to work
00:12:46with them, to experience what this kind of work is like, and at some
00:12:50point we decided to develop independently,
00:12:52to separate, to go our own way.
00:12:55Uh, having gained excellent experience, seeing how those very
00:12:58apples and various vegetables grow. The first crop in our farm was
00:13:02zucchini, we cultivated it back
00:13:05at my wife's parents' farm,
00:13:09and to this day zucchini remains our number
00:13:12one, but since then
00:13:15we have not stopped experimenting and thanks
00:13:19to this, today we cultivate such
00:13:22crops as asparagus, and...
00:13:25zucchini, courgette, sweet corn,
00:13:28large assortment of muscat pumpkins, also iceberg lettuce, cabbage,
00:13:31broccoli,
00:13:35cauliflower, various colors, well, and various colored
00:13:38cabbages, this season
00:13:41this year, we will finish
00:13:44with apples.
00:13:54And we... are in one of the fields where an
00:13:58experiment is being conducted with a crop called artichoke. And
00:14:01you can see the artichoke, a Mediterranean
00:14:04plant that liked our Belarusian
00:14:07climate, our land, and this is our fourth year
00:14:11experimenting with this crop, gaining experience
00:14:14and accordingly forming a food culture for
00:14:17our customers.
00:14:20And in this, our retail chains
00:14:24kindly help us. Because this is a good tool for
00:14:27a larger number
00:14:30of customers, people to get acquainted with this wonderful
00:14:34crop, which is very
00:14:37useful for digestion, for the liver,
00:14:41and in early spring, well, in early spring, in
00:14:45May, you can already enjoy this
00:14:48delicacy. Artichoke
00:14:51is a plant of the aster family, so it's essentially
00:14:54a flower. Its main purpose
00:14:58is medicinal, and
00:15:01its inflorescence is used in food
00:15:04in a closed state, and
00:15:06to prepare it,
00:15:10you need to peel off the leaves. The
00:15:13inflorescence of the plant is consumed in
00:15:16a closed form. You need to cut it off at the stem, approximately
00:15:204-5 cm. This is how
00:15:23it looks. To prepare
00:15:26an artichoke, you need to peel off the leaves,
00:15:30get to the yellow ones, which are
00:15:32tender and young. Then
00:15:34we cut it in half,
00:15:37cut off the top part and clean out
00:15:40the fluff that is at the bottom. This
00:15:43bottom part with short leaves is eaten.
00:15:47Different recipes are used
00:15:50for preparing artichoke. You can bake
00:15:54it in the oven, you can fry it deliciously with garlic and simmer it under
00:15:58a lid. We really like the second
00:16:01recipe, our family actively prepares artichoke like this,
00:16:04artichoke is a very healthy plant. For the liver
00:16:08it is a good choleretic
00:16:09agent.
00:16:12The artichoke is a rather interesting plant in agricultural technology.
00:16:15Its cultivation was first
00:16:18prompted by an experiment with the first crop - asparagus. Then,
00:16:21during negotiations
00:16:25with partners, we became interested in artichoke. They
00:16:29offered us seeds for testing and we
00:16:32started to grow it. Agricultural technology includes sowing
00:16:36seeds for seedlings
00:16:39in winter. Then for half the winter
00:16:42and spring, the seedlings must be kept in a greenhouse. Then
00:16:46they are planted in the ground, after
00:16:50which, after about 2 months, the first
00:16:52artichoke harvest can be gathered. In
00:16:56the Mediterranean, artichoke is considered a perennial
00:16:59plant. Unfortunately, our first experience was not like that. The next year nothing
00:17:03grew, and we persistently continued
00:17:06to cultivate artichokes, but only a year later, because the season was
00:17:10lost, the time was gone.
00:17:12In principle, in the fourth year we reached the
00:17:16result that we saved most of the plantations. We also
00:17:20sowed new plants this year
00:17:24as a backup, so we are determined
00:17:26to continue our experiment and
00:17:30improve the health of our
00:17:32Belarusians.
00:17:38As far as we know and from
00:17:42our experience, we were the first in the country to start
00:17:45cultivating artichoke, and
00:17:48so far, in 4 years, we are the only ones.
00:17:52It would be interesting if other
00:17:55producers appeared, because it's more interesting together,
00:17:59it would be great to exchange experiences,
00:18:02together,
00:18:05together, in a word, it's easier to achieve
00:18:07a certain goal. I would also like to add that
00:18:11the main product of the artichoke
00:18:15is its inflorescence in this form, but
00:18:18a wonderful side effect at the
00:18:21end of the growing season is its
00:18:25flowers - beautiful lilac,
00:18:28purple color,
00:18:30they gladden the hearts of lovely ladies.
00:18:34As experience has shown, Belarusian land...
00:18:37is ready to accept any experiments,
00:18:41the important thing is the seed and a lot of work.
00:20:00of up to 30 km. A novelty from
00:20:04Minsk machine builders is now traveling to exhibitions.
00:20:08It generally combines the advantages of
00:20:11an electric bus and a trolleybus, thanks to the Minsk City Executive Committee, financial
00:20:15resources were allocated and we carried out such a large-scale modernization,
00:20:18reconstruction, and renewal of our beautiful Gomarnik
00:20:22square. Your City project. We will look
00:20:25into quiet courtyards, remember legends and tell
00:20:29about cultural splendor. Watch on our
00:20:32TV channel.
00:21:00When we started our farm,
00:21:03it's easier to do business
00:21:06in the city, because people
00:21:09there don't know each other, don't
00:21:13know who comes from what family, and somehow perceive
00:21:16all this more simply. When
00:21:20you start doing business
00:21:24where you were born, people have some
00:21:27initial distrust, how can they, will they
00:21:31be able to organize all this, because
00:21:35well, people here
00:21:38are simpler, they are used
00:21:40to working themselves, not organizing work,
00:21:43but working themselves physically,
00:21:46so I wouldn't say that someone
00:21:51criticized us, but people initially treated
00:21:54our business with distrust, there was also this
00:21:58thought, who needs these flowers,
00:22:01and spending money, well, because,
00:22:05well, times change, views
00:22:08change, now it's completely
00:22:12different, now in Tyshkovichi, everyone has
00:22:15tulips growing in their yards,
00:22:18everyone comes to work for us in winter
00:22:21under a contract of employment, to clean them up,
00:22:25everyone admires them.
00:22:28When I meet some
00:22:31acquaintances from another
00:22:35place, the world is small, people somehow meet,
00:22:38travel together, relax together, stay in the hospital
00:22:42together, and
00:22:44it's nice when they say, oh, I was traveling with
00:22:48yours.
00:23:08in the opposite direction. Now, on the contrary, people ask us how to
00:23:12plant correctly, and what to
00:23:15feed them to get such high yields. So
00:23:18the distrust has turned, let's say,
00:23:22into
00:23:25imitation. Let's say, the policy
00:23:28of our farm is that if people ask us something, we always
00:23:32tell them, because from our own experience, let's say,
00:23:36if a person wants to achieve something, he
00:23:39will still achieve it. And
00:23:42if a person wants to achieve something, why not
00:23:46help him? So you have to be kind in this world.
00:24:58Having experience of living in big
00:25:01cities, such as Minsk, Brest,
00:25:05we really like Kobrin, especially our
00:25:07village, because we found our
00:25:11small piece of paradise on earth. Our lifestyle
00:25:14is very much to our
00:25:17liking. A small
00:25:21city close to the borders,
00:25:24compact, with a rich infrastructure,
00:25:28perfectly suitable for living, raising
00:25:32children, and at the same time spending minimal
00:25:35time on moving
00:25:38from point A to point B,
00:25:42and thanks to this, there is a lot of time left
00:25:45to dedicate it to work, or rest, or
00:25:49personal life.
00:26:03Every day is different from
00:26:05the previous one, everything changes, tasks change, the weather
00:26:09changes. Some new crops arrive,
00:26:13it's time to harvest from the fields, everything is
00:26:15different. One evening, Andrey and I were driving
00:26:19home, tired, barely dragging our
00:26:23feet. We were driving and complaining to each other that we
00:26:26love this job so much that we don't know when
00:26:30to stop.
00:29:16withstood trials, entered the best period in history.
00:29:19A solemn event took place at the Chinese Embassy in
00:29:22Belarus. The first through freight train -
00:29:25the Slavic Caravan - departed from Orsha to
00:29:27Uzbekistan at the invitation of the President
00:29:30of Belarus. Belarusian-Chinese
00:29:32and entered the best period in history.
00:29:39relations have withstood the test of international turbulence
00:29:45This was stated by the Chinese Ambassador to Belarus at a solemn
00:29:48event on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the founding
00:29:51of the Communist Party of China and the 99th anniversary of the
00:29:54formation of the People's Liberation Army. Behind the diplomatic
00:29:58protocol is a concrete economic agenda
00:30:01of strengthening strategic partnership. Last year,
00:30:04the total trade volume between China and Belarus already amounted
00:30:08to more than eight and eight billion US
00:30:11dollars. I want to tell you a secret that in the first half
00:30:15of this year, we already saw a large
00:30:17increase, somewhere around 30%
00:30:21increase, so it is quite likely that
00:30:24this year we will have a new record in trade between
00:30:27China and Belarus. The reception is not just a tribute
00:30:31to important dates in Chinese history, but a clear
00:30:35confirmation of common interest. This
00:30:38and next years have been officially declared years
00:30:41of industrial cooperation between Belarus and China. Belarus and Tajikistan signed
00:30:45a roadmap for cooperation until 2031.
00:30:49The ceremony took place during the nineteenth meeting
00:30:52of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation
00:30:56in Brest. At the meeting, the state and prospects
00:30:59of trade, economic, investment, and
00:31:03interregional cooperation, industrial cooperation,
00:31:06and interaction in various spheres of the economy and social
00:31:09sphere were discussed.
00:31:11The first through freight train Slavic Caravan departed from Orsha to
00:31:15Uzbekistan. The solemn event took place at
00:31:18Orsha Vostochnaya station. The train will follow the route Belarus,
00:31:22Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. The train consists
00:31:25of wagons with wood processing products, food cargo, and
00:31:29compound feed. In the future, it is planned to expand the range
00:31:32of cargo to include wagons with containers delivered
00:31:36by road, which will allow taking advantage of all
00:31:39the benefits of multimodal transportation. Already
00:31:42today we passed on this route.
00:32:45Uzbekistan. On the way back, of course, we will
00:32:48expect the Eastern Caravan
00:32:51to arrive here. The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and
00:32:55the Southern Medical University of China signed an agreement on
00:32:58scientific and technical cooperation. The document
00:33:00will unite the efforts of the parties to strengthen scientific potential,
00:33:04exchange advanced technologies, and create joint products
00:33:08for applied purposes. The priority direction
00:33:10of cooperation is research in the field of traditional Chinese
00:33:14medicine. Vietnam arrived
00:33:21for
00:33:25a vacation in Belarus at the invitation of the president. The National Children's
00:33:28Educational and Health Center Zubrenok on the shores of Naroch
00:33:32is a platform for studying Belarusian traditions and culture. The program for
00:33:35vacationers includes sports, creativity, excursions, and
00:33:38health improvement. This year we are hosting children from
00:33:4210 countries, already delegations from... Uzbekistan,
00:33:46Kyrgyzstan, from Algeria, Egypt, India,
00:33:49and Zimbabwe have rested with us. Currently,
00:33:53delegations from Vietnam, Myanmar,
00:33:56and Laos are receiving health
00:33:59treatment. In August, we expect a large delegation from the People's Republic
00:34:03of China. My first impression of Belarus
00:34:06is exclusively positive, I came here for the first time. I
00:34:09really like it here, I'm surprised how clean the air is and
00:34:13how green the forests are. The children are very friendly, I've
00:34:17already made friends with them, they are very active, kind,
00:34:20easy to make contact with. There are also interesting sports
00:34:24games and competitions in the camp, such events unite
00:34:27us. The invitation of children from other countries has been organized
00:34:30annually since 2017.
00:34:33Funds are allocated on behalf of the head of state,
00:34:36during this time more than 2,500 children
00:34:40from 40 countries
00:34:42have rested and received treatment in Belarus.
00:35:02Digital cooperation, increased exports, launch of direct
00:35:05air travel. Belarus and Saudi Arabia are reaching a fundamentally new
00:35:09level of economic interaction.
00:35:12The first through route connected Belarus and Uzbekistan. The Slavic Caravan
00:35:16project will accelerate the delivery of goods by rail transportation. Tastings,
00:35:19a competition for bakers, and a tractor show - Grodno region invites you to
00:35:23the Bread Festival. What is the recipe for that very "Batkova Bulka" and what
00:35:26is the secret of the Karavai-fest's popularity?