2023-10-05 17:27:00
Their implementation will replenish the treasury and ensure food security
The Russian authorities will provide the country’s agro-industrial complex (AIC) with new personnel and technologies. Qualified specialists and automation of rural industry will make it possible to increase the export of Russian agricultural products, replenish the budget, and also continue to ensure the country’s food sovereignty. This opinion is shared by experts interviewed by URA.RU, commenting on Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s visit to the Golden Autumn agro-industrial exhibition on October 5.
Products from the Zaporozhye region were presented for the first time at the “Golden Autumn” exhibition
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Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, speaking at a plenary session at the Golden Autumn 2023 exhibition, noted the importance of personnel and technology for the development of the domestic agro-industrial complex.
“This sector requires the implementation of the most innovative solutions. It must become more knowledge-intensive, technologically advanced, and innovative in order to remain as effective and develop further. And it requires specialists who understand smart field cultivation, genetic engineering, robotics, processing food waste, and other equally important areas,” Mishustin noted.
Mikhail Mishustin, walking around the Golden Autumn exhibition, fed and stroked a horse. “Handsome!” – said the head of government
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According to Mishustin, taking into account new tasks, the country is building an education system starting from school. More than 20 thousand students attend specialized agricultural classes, and starting this year, within the framework of the “Professionality” program, they began to train personnel in secondary vocational education. More than three thousand large holdings work directly with universities.
“We support this approach by compensating entrepreneurs for up to 90% of the costs of training employees and students. This year, the federal budget has allocated over 225 million rubles in this area. Moreover, the system of training personnel for the needs of the agro-industrial complex continues to develop. Experimental training programs are being created, such as internship in the field of veterinary medicine, an area that is necessary to ensure biological safety,” said the head of government.
At the exhibition, the head of government was shown unique honey in combs. And they gave him a jar so he could try it
Photo: Georgy Bergal © URA.RU
To ensure that qualified specialists strive to work in rural areas, the authorities are engaged in the development of rural areas. “The quality of life in rural areas, although gradually, is changing for the better. We are investing a lot of money in creating modern infrastructure. People need schools, kindergartens, medical facilities, and the ability to call an ambulance. And of course, we need sports grounds for children and adults, cultural centers, and libraries. Over 26 billion rubles are allocated for the comprehensive development of territories in 2023. And more than 10 billion more will be spent on cleaning up roads in rural areas.
We hope that this approach will allow us to create rural agglomerations that are comfortable for life. And of course, young specialists will be able, after objectively weighing all the conditions, to choose them rather than large cities,” Mishustin emphasized.
Mikhail Mishustin was told about drones for the Russian agro-industrial complex
Photo: Georgy Bergal © URA.RU
The Russian authorities are solving the problem of personnel and technology in the agro-industrial complex. Automation of processes and qualified specialists will make it possible to solve the global problem of increasing the export of Russian agricultural products, as well as continue to ensure the country’s food security, say experts interviewed by URA.RU.
According to the President of the Center for Strategic Communications, Dmitry Abzalov, the problem of personnel is a common problem for the country; there are very few free hands, so automation of agriculture is the only way out for its development and growth. “Automation in agriculture is a definite prospect as it involves a lot of manual labor.
In case of competition in manual labor, in human employment, our production costs will increase, because people need to be lured with high salaries. At the same time, for example, farms that are now being automated are served by 2-4 people, and this is whole kilometers. This is all a good prospect, given that Russia has quite large crop areas and a serious supply of water resources. Therefore, automation of the agro-industrial complex is, in principle, the only way out,” says Abzalov.
Before the plenary session, Mishustin spoke with students of the Russian State Agrarian University who are making their own inventions to improve agriculture.
“It is very important to work on every element to improve the efficiency of any production. Labor productivity is the basis for our economy to grow,” Mishustin emphasized in a conversation with students.
The head of government positively assessed the work of students of the Timiryazev Academy
Photo: Georgy Bergal © URA.RU
To automate the agro-industrial complex, qualified personnel are nevertheless needed, especially taking into account the growth in productivity, says former Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Professor Leonid Kholod. “A tractor is not just two levers and five toggle switches. Nowadays the technology is very complex; a combine harvester is comparable to an airplane. Even a person with a good education will have to figure it out for a long time. You need to learn to work with technology; this requires qualified personnel. This is not only a problem of the current situation, when there are no specialists in rural areas, incomes are lower and the social infrastructure is underdeveloped. This is the spirit of the times: the intensification of the agro-industrial complex leads to the fact that technology and everything else become more complicated and the need for specialists increases,” Kholod explained.
After the introduction of foreign sanctions, the Russian agro-industrial complex needs to build a strategy for the development of domestic agricultural technologies, agricultural machinery, and most importantly, the specialists who will develop these technologies and create machinery and equipment, comments the press secretary of the Public Council under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Golov .
“Taking into account the fact that a number of foreign companies have left our market and introduced a sanctions regime against the Russian Federation, we urgently need to develop our own technologies in the near future both in the production of agricultural products and in their processing. Undoubtedly, given the long period of dependence on foreign supplies, there remain ongoing difficulties with equipment, machinery, and spare parts. It will also be necessary to seriously work on solving this problem, and for this we need our own specialists, educational resources and a modern scientific school.
Therefore, creating conditions for training domestic personnel for the agro-industrial complex is one of the important accents in the work of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and the Government of the Russian Federation,” summed up the agency’s interlocutor.
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