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00:01:13heels, along with it, the time for big calculations, where
00:01:16every ear, every grain is under control.
00:01:20Time, money, machine operators don't miss a single good
00:01:23day, they work as a team for a common result. Why
00:01:27do good balers even exist, in order to essentially
00:01:30store and harvest fodder qualitatively, like this, in rolls, they can stand for up to 9
00:01:34months, the Belarusian agro-industrial complex needs almost 300 such machines per
00:01:37year, starting next year, they promise to collect
00:01:4050. At the forefront, the names of harvest heroes light up, in
00:01:44Brest, new lights of import substitution. In order not to
00:01:47lose the production site and people, the direct tasks that are
00:01:51set for the plant are to modernize faster, increase
00:01:53the degree of localization, simply, more of our own, we need to
00:01:57decide what we ourselves...
00:04:00to water, earth, sun.
00:04:04Not everything comes at once, I
00:04:10realized that this world is filled with patience and
00:04:13perseverance. Each stage is important:
00:04:16plant a seed, feed it, wait until
00:04:20it grows, protect it, harvest the fruits,
00:04:23hope for the best.
00:04:26One sprout, planted
00:04:31and grown by
00:04:34you, can teach more than
00:04:37a book or
00:04:38a movie.
00:04:44My name is Artemiy Milnikov, I am the founder of the Agrolukomal crop
00:04:47complex. Our task is to grow
00:04:51useful, environmentally friendly, berry
00:04:53crops.
00:05:18I had no previous experience in agriculture, but I had
00:05:22experience in various industries, such as construction, IT,
00:05:25digital medicine. This experience definitely came in handy in
00:05:29implementing this
00:05:30project.
00:05:34In fact, it doesn't matter what industry, all
00:05:37principles are the same, you need to bring
00:05:40benefit, you need to create. create value
00:05:44efficiently,
00:05:47the industry is not so important, the
00:05:49approach is important, try to compress
00:05:53the time for the project, what does that mean? We
00:05:56could have started with my brother with a small plantation of
00:05:591-2-3 hectares for about
00:06:0315-20 years to grow to 80, just organically,
00:06:06but time is not money, time is much more expensive.
00:06:10Therefore, investments
00:06:15are the way that saved us
00:06:1815-20 years of our lives.
00:06:21We are
00:06:29in the center of our plantation,
00:06:31this is 45 hectares of blackcurrant, 12
00:06:35hectares of honeysuckle and 10
00:06:38hectares of blueberries.
00:06:40We oriented our rows relative to the directions
00:06:44of the world, north-south, in order for the plant to
00:06:47receive the maximum amount of sunlight throughout
00:06:51the day. A tractor,
00:06:54navigation, and autopilot helped us with this, which
00:06:57allows us to flawlessly make
00:07:00perfectly even rows.
00:07:07We planted honeysuckle because it's
00:07:10returning to the market.
00:07:13It's such a natural Slavic traditional
00:07:16berry that was actually
00:07:18forgotten,
00:07:21people even forgot this name, now it's
00:07:23actively returning to
00:07:26the market, and blueberries
00:07:29are already a traditional berry for
00:07:31Belarus, only 400 hectares
00:07:35have been planted in the country, it would have been a sin
00:07:38not to implement this experience on my
00:07:41plantation.
00:07:50Blackcurrant is the most stable berry
00:07:53in industry, traditionally,
00:07:56every second jar of
00:07:58jam,
00:08:02the berries on our plantation are simply a treasure trove of
00:08:06vitamins, these are all incredibly useful crops,
00:08:08blackcurrant is like... we've known about vitamin C since
00:08:12childhood,
00:08:14honeysuckle is generally
00:08:16the berry of life, a rejuvenating berry, they call it all sorts of
00:08:20things, it's believed that if you eat honeysuckle, then
00:08:23the body rejuvenates, cells rejuvenate,
00:08:26just like blueberries, it's a huge
00:08:29complex of various vitamins,
00:08:32everything, everything that a person needs,
00:08:36it's all in blueberries.
00:08:39In order
00:08:44to grow a certain crop, we
00:08:47need to know as much as
00:08:49possible about it.
00:08:52I inspected the mother plant of currants, the condition is
00:08:55good, there are no harmful insects, virtually no diseases
00:08:59either, well, there are some problems with
00:09:01nutrition, the leaves are a bit pale,
00:09:05this means there's a lack of iron, so we need to add
00:09:08a certain amount to our feeding system.
00:09:42exactly the set of trace elements
00:09:46that it needs for growth, development,
00:09:49and fruiting.
00:09:53Agronomy is not mathematics, it is
00:09:56an art, a creative process in which
00:10:00you can look at several agronomists' views,
00:10:03choose the one that is most likely to suit
00:10:07a specific field.
00:10:10How's the situation? Everything's good. Tomorrow we'll plan fertigation
00:10:14feeding, fertigation works,
00:10:17of course, it depends on the crop, the
00:10:20region, the field you're in, everything
00:10:23is as flexible as possible, you need to make decisions
00:10:26on the spot.
00:10:307.5 km of drip
00:10:33irrigation main has been laid, 200
00:10:36km of drip tubing has been run to each
00:10:39bush, we irrigate through a pumping
00:10:43station, water comes from a technical
00:10:47reservoir, here's
00:10:49a radio tower,
00:10:52which can be used to send a signal.
00:10:55You can turn on a separate
00:10:58sector or several at once via the app
00:11:01on your phone.
00:11:05This is the heart of our plantation, the pumping
00:11:08station, through which both irrigation
00:11:12and fertigation pass, that is, the
00:11:15nutrition of our
00:11:17plants.
00:11:21Each berry crop requires different nutrition,
00:11:25different acidity, some substances
00:11:28cannot be mixed, so there is a
00:11:32sequential flushing of both tanks and
00:11:36pumps,
00:11:42just like a human, a plant is a living creature, it cannot drink
00:11:45absolutely any water, we also don't drink dirty
00:11:49water or try to avoid hard water,
00:11:52so we care.
00:12:26I advise buying
00:12:33berries or fruits from
00:12:36verified producers who have a staff of
00:12:40agronomists, fertigation installations, where all
00:12:42waiting periods for the preparations they use are observed, who correctly mix
00:12:46fertilizers, they will have the cleanest
00:12:49berry, unlike the alpha, private
00:12:53farmsteads where berries are grown, a person who
00:12:56uses protective agents, does not observe waiting periods,
00:13:00uses preparations with a long waiting period of
00:13:0330-40 days, on the next day harvests the berries and
00:13:07takes them to the market, all people think that
00:13:10they bought fresh, natural,
00:13:13safe, but in fact it's.
00:13:17We, having studied the experience of both organic
00:13:21and industrial production, created such
00:13:25a biologized process for growing our
00:13:27products, that is, in any case, we
00:13:31process, but we do it in a
00:13:35minimal mode, at the same time we try to
00:13:38use as much biology as possible, bacteria
00:13:41create nutrition for plants,
00:13:44what is natural is not
00:13:47capable, what is created by man is
00:13:50effective.
00:13:52To become
00:13:56a farmer in Belarus, you need to get
00:13:59land, choose a niche in which you will
00:14:03work, decide on
00:14:05the budget you have for this implementation. Closer
00:14:09to Minsk it's more difficult, because many lands are already
00:14:12occupied.
00:14:16You can get land from the state for
00:14:19use, peasant farms may
00:14:23not pay land tax. For the most part, it's practically
00:14:26free.
00:14:30Ideally, for crop production, choose a plot with
00:14:33appropriate relief and soil
00:14:36quality.
00:14:41We didn't have a natural reservoir, so we
00:14:45dug
00:14:46one.
00:14:51It's not always possible to find the ideal
00:14:54option. You can always
00:14:56adapt.
00:15:00In the reservoir, groundwater requires
00:15:03additional purification and
00:15:04preparation.
00:15:07Accordingly, water flows through a pump
00:15:10from the reservoir to the pump house, where it is filtered
00:15:13and prepared.
00:15:17The volume of this reservoir is 4
00:15:21cubic meters. We pump out 1,000 cubic meters
00:15:25per day to irrigate our entire
00:15:28plantation.
00:15:32if we don't measure with finances, but with pure
00:15:35value, then the human contribution is conventionally
00:15:391% of the energy that we put into
00:15:41the earth, 99% of the energy is
00:15:45the sun, the earth itself, water, we
00:15:48don't value this, but it's
00:15:50true,
00:15:53it seems to us that this 1% that we invested is a lot,
00:15:57but in fact, I hope that the sun
00:16:00tax will not be introduced, but it gives us a lot.
00:16:03Harvest
00:16:27August is coming, and with it, the time
00:16:30for big calculations, where every ear, every
00:16:33grain is under control, time, money, machine operators.
00:16:37They use every good day, working as a team for a common
00:16:41result. Why are good balers even needed, essentially to
00:16:45properly store and harvest fodder. In rolls like this, they can
00:16:48stand for up to 9 months. The Belarusian agro-industrial complex needs almost
00:16:52300 such machines per year, starting next year,
00:16:55they promise to collect 50. At the forefront,
00:16:58the names of the harvest heroes light up, in Brest, new lights of
00:17:01import substitution. In order not to lose both the production site
00:17:05and people, the direct tasks that are set for the plant.
00:19:04agronomists' day season can start at 4:00 AM. because
00:19:08there are a number of care treatments that
00:19:10happen very early in the morning, before
00:19:14the sun comes out, or very late
00:19:17at night,
00:19:20even when you're sleeping, you still dream of
00:19:23currants,
00:19:28Hello, Vladimir, hello, how much do you still
00:19:31intend to haul, no, it's all over, I need to go home already, and
00:19:35tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be complaining?
00:19:37And how much is there in total in the field? Well, there's still some, but about 30, 38.
00:19:52Traveling around the world, I observed that time in
00:19:55different territories moves differently, for some it is now
00:19:59the 16th century, for some it is already
00:20:01the 200th.
00:20:06As for the future,
00:20:10we try to replace as many people as possible with automation,
00:20:13mechanization,
00:20:19if before everything had to be done by hand, now
00:20:23we have a whole ensemble of tools
00:20:26and devices that allow us to process
00:20:29and care for the plantation faster, easier,
00:20:32more efficiently.
00:20:35Due to the fact that we have a large
00:20:39plot of land, we go hand-in-hand with
00:20:41technology.
00:20:46Some treatments are necessary foliar, drone
00:20:50is an ideal solution for such feedings. The drone
00:20:53operates in automatic mode, first
00:20:57a mapping drone passes, which creates
00:21:00a map of the area with boundaries, with each
00:21:04tree, everything is
00:21:05recorded.
00:21:10And then a drone flies out that sprays
00:21:13and scatters fertilizers and reagents along the laid
00:21:16route.
00:21:20In 8 minutes, it can spray 40
00:21:23liters of reagents over the field, in
00:21:275 hours it completely processes our plantation of
00:21:3080
00:21:31hectares.
00:21:38this year we planted 1 hectare of
00:21:41strawberries, this is the fastest berry in
00:21:45terms of harvest delivery,
00:21:47literally 6-7 weeks after planting
00:21:51in spring, it produces the first berries.
00:22:04the size largely depends on the variety, also
00:22:08on the weather and feeding, of course,
00:22:10but in the first year, the largest
00:22:13berry caliber can be
00:22:15obtained.
00:22:21In terms of taste, the varieties differ
00:22:24greatly, my wife likes Asia,
00:22:27I, for example, like the Juicy
00:22:29variety.
00:22:34We are actively selling it now, gaining first experience with this
00:22:38berry. Man artificially
00:22:41led the farmer to create beautiful
00:22:45products, convenient for storage, that
00:22:49could lie in the refrigerator for a long time and nothing would happen to them, also
00:22:52tasty,
00:22:56but this is not related to naturalness,
00:23:00usefulness,
00:23:03organic food, there's less of it, it's less
00:23:06presentable,
00:23:09nature basically doesn't try to create something
00:23:12ideal, it creates
00:23:14viable things, a person wants
00:23:18beautiful, useful,
00:23:20and cheap, but simultaneously implementing this
00:23:24is impossible, most likely it will be expensive, not
00:23:28beautiful, but useful, and this
00:23:30is organic, therefore, with our
00:23:33choice, we can shape what kind of product farmers
00:23:37will grow, a strawberry fruit is not
00:23:40a berry, it is considered a false berry, because
00:23:44in reality the fruit is called a aggregate
00:23:48achene.
00:23:53The berry must be harvested at full ripeness. The berry should be evenly
00:23:57colored, and firm to the touch.
00:24:00There are
00:24:03varieties that have a white tip, but that doesn't mean it's
00:24:07unripe, it's just a varietal characteristic. In open
00:24:10ground, in our conditions, strawberries are usually picked every other day,
00:24:14this is the optimal period of time for them to ripen. If
00:24:17you pick berries in the rain, they won't be.
00:24:23After picking, strawberries need to be chilled, but we don't
00:24:27chill them too much, to +15°C.
00:24:31They are stored for a maximum of one night, because
00:24:34there are enough orders, and they are quickly
00:24:36picked up.
00:24:40In my opinion, the future of the agricultural
00:24:44sector lies with agricultural holdings or with
00:24:47agricultural cooperatives; small
00:24:50farmers will most likely not withstand competition if they cannot
00:24:54unite,
00:24:57because in unity they can have synergistic
00:25:00effects in terms of purchasing fertilizers
00:25:03and components, they can share equipment,
00:25:07if they don't learn to do this, they will have to
00:25:10yield their place to large organizations.
00:25:14for a person, this is a negative aspect, because the farmer
00:25:17is directly in contact...
00:25:50somewhere far away, but he perfectly covers
00:25:54the tactical daily issues of our plantation's
00:25:57life.
00:26:01We have. who are ambassadors of our
00:26:05enterprise, and they attract a lot of attention
00:26:09on social networks, because they are
00:26:13soulful, people really lack this
00:26:16contact with nature.
00:26:18More and
00:26:26more people come to us with the opportunity
00:26:29to feed the animals, walk with them. Large
00:26:33territory,
00:26:35as my brother says, we are creating a private
00:26:39reserve here.
00:26:44Initially, our livestock direction, yes, our
00:26:48farm started with the fact that we inherited
00:26:51what I would call a burden, these
00:26:54bull calves, which we eventually used for good,
00:26:58because any minus can be turned into a plus and something cool can be made. Now we have a tourist destination where
00:27:05people can come and communicate with our already fully contactable
00:27:09bulls. I hope in the future we
00:27:12will still be able to adopt the experience of our Texan colleagues and be able to
00:27:15break in one of the bulls, or maybe all of them, this is my long-standing
00:27:19dream.
00:27:20In addition
00:27:24to our cows, we also have Kamori goats, Pakistani
00:27:27goats – these are the most big-eared goats in the world, a distinctive feature
00:27:31is that they give a lot of milk, 8 liters a day, plus their milk
00:27:35absolutely does not smell, just like the processed products of this
00:27:38milk.
00:27:41Here is one of our firstborns - a Kamori goat named
00:27:45Pak. Why Pak? Because its homeland is
00:27:47Pakistan. There are probably no more than
00:27:51twenty such goats in Belarus, and 10
00:27:54of them are on our farm, that is, essentially, we are the largest
00:27:57breeder of Kamori goats in Belarus at the moment.
00:28:00Many
00:28:06ask why we call ourselves a reserve, because we have 2
00:28:10hectares of forest, more than 10 hectares of open fields
00:28:13for these beauties to graze, they are constantly free
00:28:16grazing, so we created conditions as close as possible to
00:28:20the natural environment, at the same time we do not remove human
00:28:24care. More than half of our reserve's
00:28:27livestock are rescued animals, and we rescued
00:28:31them not without the help of our subscribers, we are expanding
00:28:35by approximately 100 hectares this year and will possibly launch
00:28:38an entire project to rescue farm animals that have fallen into
00:28:41food.
00:28:44Every weekend my family loves to spend
00:28:48time here, because animals fill
00:28:51them with impressions for the whole
00:28:53week.
00:29:01The biggest punishment for my son is if you tell him
00:29:04that this Saturday he won't go to
00:29:06the farm.
00:29:10There is such an opinion that every Belarusian has
00:29:14a desire to start their own farmstead by retirement, probably,
00:29:16I realized it in this way.
00:29:20This is not an easy
00:29:25job, every day there are some
00:29:27challenges, because the weather changes.
00:29:31we can measure,
00:30:02I wanted to do something that would take many years
00:30:06to do something creative on
00:30:09a permanent basis,
00:30:11agriculture is about that.
00:30:14If we look at the values that exist
00:30:18in the world, then all of them are born from
00:30:21the sun, water, air, and earth. Therefore,
00:30:24this is the base. it starts.