The first batch of elite tubers was issued for planting in the spring. In the fall, he promises to buy the surplus crop at the market price and then, before the next planting, repeat everything.
Today in the Belgorod region there are not enough vegetables for domestic consumption. Especially in the so-called “borscht set”. It is necessary to grow enough to be enough for both Belgorod residents and residents of other regions of the country – such a task was set by the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. One of the first to respond to the appeal of the head of the region was a farmer from Stary Oskol. A young entrepreneur with an agronomist diploma from Timiryazevka, a graduate of the agricultural class of the Ivanovo school, in the spring distributed four and a half tons of selected potatoes to people for planting. Danila Storozhev was inspired to experiment by the experience of residents of other regions.
Danil plans to implement the experience of farmers from different parts of the country in the Belgorod region. All members of the family work in the Storozhev farm: father, mother and five children. This is a family business – they are engaged in vegetable growing. Tomatoes are grown in greenhouses, cabbage is grown in open ground. This year, 5 hectares of potatoes were planted for testing using the new technology. Danil and his relatives involved 11 like-minded people in the experiment – owners of different levels. Depending on the available areas, they were given a potato variety “Gala” and cabbage seedlings for planting free of charge. Basically, these are residents of the Starooskolsky district.
The Starooskolsky farmer allocated a hectare of land to his Ivanovo school. The vegetable growing team, which included Danil himself during his school years, also joined the experiment.
They stopped planting vegetables, because there is nowhere to sell and nowhere to store the crop – this is one of the main problems, the young farmer believes. Therefore, it guarantees that in the fall it will buy out all the surpluses at the market price. Danil Storozhev hopes that his experiment will succeed, most of his like-minded people will continue their work and will soon create their own peasant farms, thereby helping to solve the problem of employment in the countryside and the shortage of vegetables in the region.
