Production high-quality products is the credo of farmers of the Arsk region
KFH Gataullina , located in Arsk, is specialized on the production of vegetables and potatoes. Regular customers have formed on the market at this farm - many people like the products of Arsk vegetable growers. And that’s for good reason.
“It’s called - there would be no happiness, but misfortune helped,” smiles Nafil Gataullin. - We have a small vegetable storehouse - about 400 tons of one-time storage, and we are forced to sell a significant part of the crop directly from the field very cheaply. So we thought at the family council: if we can’t take in quantity, then maybe we will win due to our quality?
So does the Gataullin family. When we arrived at their fields the other day, we were surprised: if, for example, it was pleasant to look at the cabbage field — clean, well-groomed, then another area was clogged with yellowing weeds, the other, where barley grew, also bristled with the tops of green thistle. What's happening?
Naufal, the son of a farmer, an agronomist by education, explained:
- The clean steam section is the only place in the crop rotation where we use a systemic herbicide to destroy such malicious weeds as thistle and field bindweed. You cannot cope with them with a cultivator. In August, we sow winter rye, a sanitary crop, on this site. And only in the third year we plant cabbage here - during this time the aftereffect of the herbicide goes to zero. After rye in this area - cabbage, potatoes, carrots, barley - we use only biological preparations - rhizoplan, humates, trichodermin ...
Farmers have average yields. They could grow up to 1000 centners of cabbage per hectare, fortunately, there is an irrigation system built in 2018 with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan within the 80:20 program. But their principle is to grow healthy products.
“We built our vegetable storehouse with state support - in 2017, we received a 1.5 million rubles grant from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan,” Nafil Nabiullovich notes.
They created a peasant farm in 2009, and like many peasant farms went their own way of trial and mistakes. Now they seek and find ways of further development: they are engaged in wholesale sales, trade in markets, and establish relationships with restaurants. Along the way, they pull out waste farmland from the secondary industry, restore them and work: this is how they made a plow, a mill, a cultivator for themselves. And they rejoice when, in the laboratories of the markets where they trade, they receive documents testifying to the high quality of their products.