Weekdays of agrarians: In Spassky district, hot food in the field and a mobile workshop were organized for combine harvesters

1 August 2019, Thursday

The established weather, which is not quite typical for the summer months, makes its corrections to the work of farmers engaged in harvesting bread. Despite the vagaries of nature, farmers of "Mukhametova" farm try to work with maximum efficiency.

Cereal area in the farm is more than 2000 hectares. Winter crops occupy more than a thousand hectares. Machinists Alexander Shuldyakov, Oleg Usmanov and Nikolai Demidanov are busy with their harvesting on Don-500 combines.

Vladislav Ilyushin also meets the tenth season in the field, in 2018 he was the winner of the republican contest “The Best Combiner”, who achieved high district performance in harvesting crops. This year he runs the new Polesye combine. The machine operator Vladimir Salmin, on a wheeled tractor with a trailed header ZhVP-6.4, puts winter wheat in the rolls. Today, he has already managed to mow cereals on more than 200 hectares, increasing daily output to 30 hectares.

Drivers Alexander Krainov and Yuri Bukanov deliver the threshed grain to the grain receiving enterprise of the district. To date, 400 tons of bread have already been delivered. Wheat corresponds to the third class, with a good gluten content.

“Combine harvesters are working properly, without failures. The mood of the machine operators is good. They have already harvested winter wheat from 350 hectares, the yield in strong areas is about 30 centners, ”says Andrei Shikov, agronomist at the Mukhametova farm.

It should be noted that for the successful conduct of harvesting work, a mobile workshop was created in the farm, and twice a day hot meals were organized for machine operators and those who are constantly in the field.

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, 6.60 thousand hectares have already been threshed in the Spassky district, 16.6 thousand tons have been threshed, and the yield is 25.1 centners per hectare.