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COVER STORY

Peasant Lobby page 12

Most farmers do not believe in the efficiency of the trade associations. Most of those groups lobby for one or two companies, they think. Experts mainly agree with farmers but add that still there are some associations that lobby for the whole industry. Usually these are well-known organisations with a long track record or new unions of representatives of the agrarian business community.

Plant Growing

Point of View

Agricultural Show Room p. 20

Field Day cancellation this year became the first symbolic change at the agrotechnical show market which broke the traditional course of events in the Russian sector of industry exhibitions. From now on, Russia may follow the European course which will lead to the establishment of a single large specialised agricultural machinery show such as SIMA or

AGRITECHNIKA.

TEST DRIVE

Mowing and Crushing Machine Kuhn

FC 303 RGC p. 23

Kuhn has been supplying the Russian market with the mowing and crushing machine FC 303 RGC for four years already. It is in demand at farms which allocate at least 300 hectares of land to grow fodder grass. The machine producer explains its popularity by its numerous advantages over its peers. To define the machine’s benefits and shortcomings, we decided to poll farmers who have been using it for several years running.

MACHINERY

Artificial Rain p. 26

Water sprinklers help to drive up the crop yield and thus, profit. However, the choice of these machines defines not only a farm’s earnings but the future of the fields and cultures since the wrong usage of the water sprinklers can lead to soil erosion and additional water costs.

Operating at Full

Throttle p. 32

Agricultural equipment tear and wear is a natural process. It cannot be avoided but can be minimized through the careful usage, adherence to the storage norms and qualified maintenance.

TECHNOLOGIES

Rape Working Days p. 38

Following the significant expansion of the area under cultivation and crop yield increase, the gross rape harvest in Russia grew more than threefold during the last three years, from 200,000 to 680,000 metric tons. Rape has long ago proved to be a good culture at the fields of Lipetsk, Rostov, Orel, Tula, Kaliningrad regions as well as Krasnodar Krai. Nevertheless, rape producers experience a lot of problems.

Mineral

Disagreement p. 44

Liquid mineral fertilizers or, as they are often called, liquid combined fertilizers, are not popular in Russia. The reason is not their ineffectiveness or high price but, according to the practicing farmers, complications in transportation and storage. However, low popularity of liquid mineral fertilizers is caused only by the lack of choice and application skills, many experts believe.

Cattle Breeding

Point of View

Pendulum of Seasonality p. 50

Seasonality in milk production is one of the most acute and urgent problems of the Russian agricultural sector. Its roots are in the Soviet period when an extensive cattle breeding was practised.

TECHNOLOGIES

Modernization Is Imminent p. 56

According to experts, about 320 poultry factories are being reconstructed in Russia. Also new facilities have been actively being built in previously undeveloped regions during the past years. This is thanks to the investments by the government and tough competition at the poultry meat market.

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