News from the districts: Having gathered in a cooperative, the villagers became convinced of the correctness and benefit of their decision

7 February 2020, Friday

In the Kaybitsky district, there is a positive trend in the development of small business. The business activity of the villagers is increasing, opening individual enterprises, expanding personal subsidiary plots. The number of self-employed is growing. There is also the first experience of agricultural consumer cooperatives. The most successful cooperative is Yulduz, formed on the territory of the Chuteevsky rural settlement in the end of last year.

“We held a meeting in October, talked about the cooperatives being created in rural areas, state support programs,” remembers Petr Tarakanov, the head of the Chuteevsky settlement. - The idea was immediately supported by the owners of 13 private households, containing from 3 to 15 cows, 2 peasant farms.

The cooperative was created on the basis of the peasant farm of Ramilya Shchukina, successfully developing dairy farming. Locals have experience in their own business, have a fleet of equipment. Their peasant farm, established in 2013, is considered one of the most efficient and profitable in the region. The peasant farm rehabilitated the old premises of the collective farm with the money of the won grant, and in 2015 built a slaughterhouse. In continuation of the family business, daughter Gulnaz and her family set up a shop in which they began selling their products: semi-finished meat products - meatballs, manti, ravioli, dairy products.

Seeing how the Shchukins' farming is developing, their farming attitude, dexterity and successful business, the villagers entrusted the head of the family, Rafail Schukin, to lead the cooperative.

The starting capital for the development of the cooperative was a grant of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic in the amount of 5 million rubles for the development of the material and technical base of the starting cooperative. It was spent on the construction of a modular meat processing workshop, which costed the cooperators more than 9 million rubles. On the opening day, the cooperators offered guests the first batch of their own products - three types of sausages from meat grown by Chuteevsky farmers, and lamb delicacies. The cooperative received permission to release Halal products.

- Six people work in the cooperative on an ongoing basis. Now it unites 5 peasant farms and 255 private farms, ”says Rafail Schukin.“ We discuss the cooperative’s activities collectively. The board of the cooperative has been elected, there is a revision committee, a supervisory board is working, so we put up all the financial and organizational issues for discussion and make public decisions.

Having united in a cooperative, the villagers became convinced they made a right decision. The annual fee for today is 500 rubles. Money is not that big. But they sell a liter of milk to a cooperative for a ruble more than visiting dealers offer for it. At the same time, the Chuteevites are calm: they receive their money guaranteed and on time. There is every reason to believe that the cooperative itself will be market stable: due to the high quality of the products and the decent price for them.