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Chapter Poshekhonsky district of the Yaroslavl region, Nikolai Belov for the future of the area needs investment

Images in the exhibition " YarAgro "

Few people know what the consequences we will feel in the future of the countrys accession to the WTO. At first glance, today is no particular change is not observed : the shelves are full of products ( of which quality and country of origin - a separate conversation ) , and farmers and had previously been a government priority stepson oil-producing nation. Agriculture in Yaroslavl latitudes always been a zone of risky business and always rested on the shoulders of the budget. Good results and profits for our farmers - not a typical situation , but rather the exception, the resulting persistence and hard , with weather luck.

IV Yaroslavsky on agricultural exhibition -fair " YarAGRO ", which was held in August in Yaroslavl, was able to talk with a number of participants , heads of districts and businesses. Conversations make you think , and where the " curve" will lead us to the WTO , there we are moving again ?

Logistics exhibition lined up like a parade of achievements farmers serving their productions. Of course, Yaroslavl farmers have, the proud , the exhibition was about 300 participants. But a lot of farms lost, can this , the show seemed a little cheap popular , but to raise the spirit of Yaroslavl , and played a positive role of public relations . In addition, the mistress of Yaroslavl have long chosen exhibition, and with great pleasure that buy the products , you can tell from the fields . Moms bring kids show at the exhibition of horses , lambs and sheep , rabbits , geese and turkeys , ie as the zoo. What is there not ! And grown grapes in our latitudes , and handmade dolls on the stage , set next to the pavilion area , dance and sing creative teams . A little more and the feeling that you are in an episode of "Kuban Cossacks" , only adjusted for time . Here, too, and the authorities , and the peasants , and the noise and clamor , and the goods and products are all mixed up, all is bright and beautiful! Pure Gloss !

And that behind the fair ? Working life , a complicated business , lack of attention of the authorities. Did not talk about the fair participants . This , we feel , consumers , by how little it became our products on the shelves, as imports flooded the whole , stuffed with chemistry, and the word " peasant agrarian " is almost synonymous with backwardness of life.

Chapter Poshekhonsky MP (the largest in the area and agricultural directional) Nikolai Belov said that the regional authorities are encouraged that the work of the WTO will provide more state support growers - in two or even three times. It still drives away disturbing thoughts . And life in the stems , based on the best change.

Belov himself knows about agriculture firsthand 11 years was chairman of a collective farm, then people elected mayor of the city , and three years ago - the district. According to him, when presided, there were 27 farms in the area five years ago, has already left 19 , and now afloat - 11. Another troubling factor people leaving the village. Five years ago, it was in the 16 th numskulls , today - 14 thousand people. Leave for a better share those who can best adapt to the new place, has for the money. Most often it is young people who can not keep a song about how to begin homeland , and their hearts will not catch pragmatic tales about a bright future. Meanwhile, the remaining farms are not enough workers , and to invite experts from outside - not created housing , conditions.

There are successful examples of development . A few years ago, took over the poultry farm and credits for its development of the Vologda Sheksna entrepreneur . Business grew , modernized factory : in Soviet times it has issued 8 million eggs a year , and 150 people worked there , now - 45 employees, and issued " on the mountain" 65 million eggs a year , in the plans - to increase the number of chickens is almost three times. The area remained confident and stand on two legs farm - "New Life" , which is headed for 40 years veteran Alexei Antonov agricultural sector , and 25 years by the collective farm. Kalinin Viktor Ivanov . This unworldly people who have experienced all the troubled times and is now in the ranks. There are about 40 farms, but in the development of the region , they do not exert much influence.

Today, according to Nikolai Belov, the area is completely dependent on the regional budget , and therefore its development is tied to the amount of subsidies. On the show " YarAgro " brought what they could - bakery products : cakes of different colors , different types of breads and muffins under the name " Love baker ." The company produces a soft drink from the juice of wild berries and honey " Dusheparka ." The original patented the name and quality products to help the enterprise to work steadily.

There used to be a cheese factory in the area , and, most of the other first incorporated. But such a subsistence led to the ruin of the company. Belov says that the first director of the company does not burden his thoughts on how to develop a herd of cows to provide raw materials for the plant , and said he would make cheese and milk powder . That is, had no desire to work, and prevailed instinct to hit the jackpot " Quick ". This policy led to the failure .

It is a pity that the brand " Poshehonsky cheese ", alas , is no longer the name of the region. He could have become the pride and even attract tourists, because the whole world knows the province of Champagne, where they make sparkling wines , Swiss chocolate or Cracow sausage. It is possible that one day re-creation of the promoted brand will be a priority for the regional administration.

But the neighbors in the Danilov area, dealing with the same situation of production and well today . There has been successfully operating a processing plant , produces dairy and cheese products , butter . Though the company was on the specifications at the time of privatization worse than Poshehonsky . In short , the whole thing in people and in understanding their role in the development of a small country.

It is said that the impact of the WTO will become clear only for the domestic producer in three years . During this time , perhaps , will go to the market scene is still a mass of small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises , large prosyadut . The reason for that a number of factors , including not just the amount of state support , but also human resources policy , the lack of money for the modernization of the village and the political will , we are lagging behind the developed countries in the past 20 years , we will be able to compete with them in the WTO , if the trend is not particularly pleased with ?

How and what will happen next - Nikolai Belov , like other people of the province , can not predict . Today, they are living off of what they give. What will happen tomorrow? After all, the countrys budget is even more scarce (as shown by the situation with cuts in spending on social aspects of life) , the oil will not flow through the fields of provincial Russia , migrants do not become family farmers , and the WTO prosperity of our farmers do not put a major concern.

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