In the Ministry of agriculture told how the update of equipment affects the pace of the harvesting campaign

Annually, more than 2 billion rubles are used to replenish the machine and tractor fleet. Over the past five years, this has made it possible to achieve the optimal size of the park and confidently carry out technological processes in agricultural terms. This was stated by the head of the main department of technical progress and energy, state supervision over the technical condition of machines and equipment of the Ministry of Agriculture Stanislav Karpovich at a press conference in the National Press Center, the correspondent of sb.by reports.

As Stanislav Karpovich noted, today it is impossible to imagine agriculture without technical means that ensure the implementation of regulations for the production of livestock and crop production:

Agriculture in terms of technical support has moved to a new practical level. When creating machines and equipment, the main criteria is to increase labor productivity. Today, all technical means have the opportunity to develop speed modes an order of magnitude higher than cars of previous periods. There is an increase in the power of the power units, the width of the capture, the speed mode when meeting agrotechnical requirements.

A digital platform system is also developing, which ensures the growth of the mechanizer’s labor productivity through digitalization. In particular, these are systems of driving, accurate fertilizer application, application of plant protection products. All these components allow to increase the performance of a single machine.

- Annually, the average daily output per harvester was 12 hectares. This year, a hectare higher. It seems to be a minor success, but if we consider that the country has 6,500 harvesters, we harvested 6,500 hectares more grain every day. Thus, we ensured cleaning in agricultural terms and, accordingly, allowed less technological losses, Stanislav Karpovich gave an example.

Today, the machine and tractor park of the agro-industrial complex consists of more than 200 thousand units of machinery and equipment. Including 32 thousand tractors, 3,500 forage harvesters and 6,500 grain harvesters – this is almost 90-95 percent of the entire technological process.

- This is what allows the technique to be used efficiently and productively. Where there is a slight shortage of agricultural machinery, it is replenished by mechanized units. They employ more than 2 thousand units of equipment, and the production in these units is 50-60% higher than in an ordinary agricultural organization, the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture said.

From November 1, preparations are underway for the next harvest season. During this period, it is necessary to repair about 50 thousand units of agricultural machinery and equipment to ensure planned readiness and solve all issues on the timely implementation of technological operations.

- Continuation of equipment and its quality repair will be provided in the near future in order to perform everything on time, Stanislav Karpovich summed up.