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SNOV Agricultural Production Complex (former name – M. I. Kalinin Collective Farm of the Order of Peoples Friendship) has been and is currently rated a leader of our country’s agricultural production. It was organized in 1951 by merging six smaller agricultural companies: Kalinin, Znamya Sovietov, Borets, Bogatyr, Luch Kommunizma and Krasny Ogorodnik collective farms. It incorporated over 700 agricultural settlements. The total usable area amounted to 3,650 ha, including arable land area – 2,670 ha. Non-distributable assets of the company valued 18.7 thousand rubles.
At that time the collective farm possessed 36 heads of cattle (including 12 cows), 40 pigs, 37 sheep. By the year of merging, the collective farm reported 6.5 centners/ha crop capacity, 72 centner/ha potato yield, 816 kg annual milk production per cow.
In plant growing, the farm is specialized in sugar-beet production. However, almost 90% of the arable area is used for high-quality fodder growing for milk, meat, pork, poultry production and young cattle breeding. The area under crop is also used for the same purposes of the agricultural specialization. Grains occupy the most share – 57.3%, 17% of the area is assigned for permanent grasses, 11.5% - for sugar-beet, 13.1% - for maize and 1.1% - for potatoes. Our grain-growers implement scientific model approach in farming, and, thus, have been continuously gaining – year after year – progressively high soil fertility and grain productivity per each arable hectare. In 2005 about 30 tons of organic fertilizers and 357 kg of mineral fertilizers were put in each arable hectare. Timely application and proper quality of technologies implemented are ensured by powerful high-performance equipment of national and foreign manufacturers. All in all, SNOV Agricultural Production Complex incorporates a fleet of 111 tractors and 88 trucks, 12 high-capacity combine harvesters. The entire staff’s painstaking work for increased land fertility, dynamically increasing crop capacity, best deserving grain variety implementation resulted in country-record harvests In 2009 we reported the average of 61.9 centners/ha, with the aggregate grain crop reaching 21,159 tons; actually, every 6th ton of grain crop of Nesvizh district comes from Snov land. Sugar-beet harvest amounted to 670 centners/ha. Approx. 5.8 thousand tons of maize was harvested. The Governmental contract for grain was surpassed.
Nowadays, SNOV Agricultural Production Complex holds 9430 heads of cattle, including 2065 cows. Our assiduous target work for increased milk productivity by implementing new technologies of care and feeding, as well as breeding solutions provide for ponderable results. In 2009 our milk production reached 18946 ton, being 337 ton gain as compared to the corresponding period of the last year. Yield of milk for the reporting period amounted to 9175 kg per cow (146 kg gain as compared to 2008). For half-year 2010 total milk production amounted to 9988 ton (530 ton increase as compared to last year), while yield per cow counted 4606 kg (26 kg gain as compared to 2009). Our milk farms produce 50 tons of milk daily, which exceeds 20% share of the entire district production. There are very few farms in our country that can “boast” of such results.
Presently, the cow bloodstock reached the genetic capacity exceeding 9,000 kg, coming up to 11,000 kg per cow with calves. We are sure to gain the average 9,200-9,300 kg milk capacity per cow this year. Our forage reserves being steadily and increasingly developed, cattle close confinement, upgraded mechanization and computerized milk production benefit to constant augmentation of productivity in the milk-processing sector.
In 2004 we commissioned an up-to-date milk-processing complex of 1,000 head capacity in the village of Sychi. The construction was started long ago under management of the former director M. A. Karchmit, the Hero of Belarus, and recommenced under control of the Belarusian President A. G. Lukashenko. The production facilities comprise of two cowsheds of 500 head capacity each with two milking sections, a section for dry fodder feeding, calf-houses, a delivery section and two preventoriums for newly born calves. The average 2009 milk capacity amounted to 10,600 kg per cow, while there are single milky “producers” of over 70 kg daily.
The complex is equipped with the top modern equipment by Westphalia German brand. All production cycles are fully computerized and automated.
Sychi Milk-Processing Complex is operated by 50 people. Our administration and engineering staff are planning to reengineer all other farms in the SNOV Complex to comply with the similar technology in future.
In early 2009 a new milking house equipped with Carrousel-Parallel line by the same Westphalia German brand was put into operation at or D-SNOV Milk-Processing Factory.
The most profitable branch proves to be production of pork and poultry and processing technologies. The agricultural complex incorporates a pig-breeding farm of 30,000 head capacity and a poultry farm of 320,000 chicken average annual capacity. In 2009 we manufactured 3,022 centners of milk and 2,536 centners of meat per 100 hectares of agricultural purpose lands. In 2009 the total poultry production amounted to 6,333 tons (654 ton gain as compared to 2008), and pork production – 6,007 tons.
We increased our sales of fresh pork by 234 tons, totaling to 5,991 tons annually. Daily average 2009 weight increment amounted to 630 g. For the first half of 2010 our complex manufactured 7,922 tons of meat (664 ton increment as compared to last half-year), including 3,106 tons of pork and 3,645 tons of poultry. A particular pride of SNOV Agricultural Production Complex is its meat-processing factory, which manufactures over 260 high-quality products. The factory’s staff comprises of 440 people. In 2009 the factory processed 12,675 tons of life weight cattle, poultry – 5,990 tons; fresh beef manufactured – 2,839 tons, pork – 4,374 tons, poultry – 4,500 tons, sausages – 7,066 tons, canned products – 4.2 mn. cans.
A milk-processing workshop functions simultaneously. The milk is pasteurized and packed there; there are also lines of sour cream, kefir, curd, butter. In 2009 the workshop processed 10,141 tons of milk with 4,141 tons of packed milk, 831 tons of kefir, 585 tons of sour cream, 261 tons of curd and 30 tons of butter put on the market. The Complex’s 2009 proceeds of processing sector exceeded 115 bn. rubles.
For the first half of 2010 the meat-processing factory processed 6,458 tons of life weight cattle, poultry – 3,768 tons. A considerable increase of production and range was attained by the sausage-manufacturing workshop, reaching 3,620 tons of sausages output.
From the moment of its organization as M. I. Kalinin Collective Farm in 1951, one of the major concerns of its first Chairman Ya. V. Aleksankin, along with agricultural collective farming organization, became compliance with high-quality standards of farmers’ life and labor; thus, the Snov residents were the republic’s first consumers of natural gas. Ya. V. Aleksankin’s business line was succeeded by M. A. Karchmit. He was the manager to attain a new quality level of care for people employed. He personally assisted in construction of dozens of new detached cottage-type buildings. He followed the principle: when you work hard, you should live well, and the good life is not work only, it is good rest as well.
SNOV Agricultural Production Complex markets at the local territory through its corporate retail network and Nesvizh District Association’s retail network. It is in compliance with all public social standards applicable in trade, logistics and domestic services. There are two general secondary schools located at the Complex territory – Snovskaya and Pogoreltsevskaya secondary schools – teaching 625 children. Our pupils demonstrate higher progress as compared to the district average. Snovskaya school’s teaching staff and student groups are engaged in long-term cooperation program with M. Tank Belarusian State Teachers’ Training University; the school is also a member of the Belarusian Association of UNESCO clubs. A break-through in Complex’s development was performed in the 1970s, following the visit of the Belarusian Communist Party’s First Secretary P. M. Masherov. This benefited immensely to SNOV Agricultural Production Complex becoming a highly efficient multi-sector agricultural company, the district largest meat & milk manufacturer having a branched retail network both in Minsk and many other cities of Minsk region. The SNOV-manufactured products are proved to be of top quality. This is due to modern technologies applied and high-capacity equipment by the leading national foreign companies. For the last two years a comprehensive reengineering of meat-processing production facilities has been finalized and an up-to-date milk-processing complex of 1,000 head capacity was put into operation.
