Avdonin: the hope for subsidies is a manifestation of the weakness of leaders

At the meeting in Shklovsky district, the Head of State outlined the fundamental issues of the economy of agriculture: agriculture is a business, there will be no more helicopter money, and there is no need to rush to unite farms. How effectively built these processes in the country, on the air of the talk show “Budni” on “SBTV” and “Alfa Radio” explained the Chairman of the Belarusian society “Knowledge” Alexey Avdonin, writes sb.by.

According to him, when managers count on subsidies, they show weakness.

- We need to talk about this openly: they misunderstood somewhere, did not predict somewhere, did not plan somewhere. Who is ultimately responsible for their negligence? It turns out that to maintain the enterprise it is necessary to use public money, budget, funds. And how do we measure efficiency? The president says very clearly: let’s rebuild the whole system, mobilize yourself as managers first. Because any local official has only one main task - to serve his people. These are not big words, they are very simple, they are expressed only in one thing – in improving the well-being of the people with whom you work. It is not in my pocket to unbuckle something, not to develop corruption, not to connivance, nepotism, tribalism and everything else. Nope. First of all, you set yourself a simple task: to increase this employee’s salary in a quarter, in two. And the President is talking about it. You can always find an excuse: the wind blew from the wrong side, the water flooded the fields, or something else. But you have to start with yourself. The President sees and knows the situation in all regions. But here it is important for our officials to restructure a little and become leaders for the people, not for themselves, said Alexey Avdonin.

Commenting on the topic of land reclamation and involvement in the circulation of abandoned sites, the expert stressed that this is a whole state program, which is systemic in nature.

Reclamation is not just reclamation for the sake of reclamation. There are lands where it is necessary to divert water, and somewhere, on the contrary, to bring. This is not the case, especially during the dry summer. If you do not deal with this topic, then no matter how you sow in these fields, the level of soil fertility will be completely different. Reclamation has always been done, since ancient Egypt, and it always gave results. We have the appropriate institutions, the scientific approach. We see how this topic has been actively raised over the past five years. This affects the fact that we are increasingly involving land in economic turnover. This gives the volume of agricultural products, the economy, income to enterprises, higher wages. If land is like gold to us, then this gold should be used as much as possible. As an example, I myself am from Grodno, we had our father’s dacha there. For a long time no one was engaged in reclamation. And about three years ago, we brought up this topic in Weekdays. I came here in the summer and was surprised. Completely cut down all aspen plantings, which were wild in nature - and the earth healed. It was already turning into a difficult swamp, because the river was overgrown, and people could not pass from one village to another. They are listening to us, and it gives a very good result. Therefore, land reclamation is not only the involvement of land in circulation, but also the solution of simple household tasks, even ensuring communication between villages. This is an important program, it is under the control of the Head of State, so it should be dealt with in even more detail and effectively, Alexey Avdonin concluded.

The talk show “Budney” is released on weekdays on the morning air of “Alfa Radio”. Each issue discusses the most relevant topics from the life of the country and the world. Political scientists, scientists, public figures and journalists of leading media participate in the discussions. See the full version of the program on the VIDEOBEL.BY website and on the SBTV YouTube channel.