A working meeting of the participants of the XXXIV Congress of the Association of Peasant (Farm) Enterprises and Agricultural Cooperatives of Russia with the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, Rosselkhozbank JSC, Rosagroleasing JSC was held in Moscow.
More than 800 people took part in the event, more than half of them were heads of farms, heads of regional farmer organizations AKKOR. Also among the invitees are heads of departments of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, heads of regional ministries of agriculture of the Russian Federation from 70 regions of the country, management and representatives of Rosselkhozbank, Rosagroleasing, agricultural scientists.
The focus was on the profitability of small businesses, the availability of state support, excessive reporting on grants, land issues, problems in the marketing of agricultural products, the growth of electricity tariffs and preferential connection to power grids, the availability of agricultural machinery and spare parts, and others.
Acting Rector of Stavropol State Agrarian University Vladimir Sitnikov made a presentation on the modern approach to the education of future specialists in the agro-industrial complex.
– Today, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and the minister personally set very serious tasks for all agricultural universities in our country. These tasks consist in the development and in full compliance of our universities with the requirements of our production workers. This applies to both the educational process and the scientific one. All our scientific developments and research should find application in the "furrow on the farm". The task set today by the federal center is the development of programs at all universities that will provide one hundred percent support for technological cycles in peasant farms. This includes agrochemical analysis, the phytosanitary state of agricultural crops, and precision farming technologies, etc. Today, universities have serious material and technical bases. For example, Stavropol State Agrarian University for 3 years under the program "Priority 2030" has invested a billion in laboratories and equipment. That is, we have reached a completely new evolutionary stage,” he noted.
