Today, every seventh hectare of farmland in the province is under the protection of JSC Shchelkovo Agrochem, a supplier of unique plant protection products, fertilizers, and now seeds of its own selection. Thanks to his preparations and fertilizers, such a large farm as “Steppe Dawns” from the Bolsheglushitsky district received an unprecedented harvest of winter wheat this year — 68 kg/ha. Small farms, in addition to the high efficiency of the company’s products, note good service.
Special preparations — a special form
Local farmers have known this company since 2008, when a representative office was opened in Samara. Its assortment includes more than 150 products that allow you to protect any crops grown in the region: cereals, soybeans, peas, flax, sunflower, rapeseed, buckwheat, as well as orchards and vineyards.
The list of products is wide: seed protectants, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, fumigants, rodenticides, desiccants, pheromones, microbiological preparations, amino acid biostimulants, micro fertilizers for leaf dressing, plant growth regulators and others.
The head of the Samara representative office of JSC Shchelkovo Agrochem, Ilgam Shakurov, said that all products received high ratings from agricultural producers and farms — with its help, more than 250 agricultural enterprises in the region achieved a 2-3-fold increase in yield.
The uniqueness of the company’s products consists in a special form of drugs. Substances are supplied to plants in the form of microemulsions, concentrates of colloidal solutions, oil concentrates of emulsions, oil dispersions and formulations.
Seed jelly beans
For several years, the company has been supplying seeds of its own selection to the farms of the region. Sunflower hybrids have proven themselves well among Samara farmers: Dakha, Commander, Bazik, AREV, Comet, Freya, Gyrfalcon and Bombardier. The yield of hybrids offered by the company is not only not inferior to imported ones, but also exceeds them. In addition, farmers note such qualities as good germination, resistance to harmful factors, the fulfillment of baskets.
The company offers inlaid or etched soybean seeds of high reproductions to soybean growers of the region. They are produced at the Betaran Seeds Breeding and Seed production Center using non-traumatic technology. Among the list of varieties offered, the Bingo variety stands out, the originator of which is Shchelkovo Agrochem.
Grain producers should take a closer look at the original varieties of winter wheat: Volodya, DF 2020, Dubovitsky Emerald, Sistema, Nemchinovskaya 85.
“We immediately saw a profit”
Andreeva’s farm is well known in the Kamyshlinsky district. Already the third generation of the family has chosen a difficult and honorable share of grain growers.
The head of the family Oleg Andreev and his wife Natalia, the head of the farm Andreeva N.V., are agronomists by education, just like their parents. The total area of their fields, together with the uprooting, is almost 1000 hectares.
The couple grow winter and spring wheat, buckwheat, soy, flax and sunflower. Winter wheat has already been harvested. The harvest turned out to be good, on average 30 quintals per hectare, third and fourth food grade, which is not surprising when the family has agronomists. They are supporters of non—arable farming – a management system that is considered aerobatics among farmers and does not forgive mistakes.
“With the products of the Shchelkovo Agrochem company, we finally saw a profit, stopped working for the sake of work,” says Natalia Andreeva. The harvested grain is stored in the Klyavlin grain receiving point, the spouses are waiting for good purchase prices for grain, the family is discussing the purchase of a new seeder and a second combine.
Cooperation with Shchelkovo Agrochem has become closer. Oleg got a position as a representative of the company in the northern regions of the Samara region and began to advise farmers.
Sow, but do not plow
One of the advantages of working with the company’s preparations is that the schemes are suitable both for zero—tillage technology — without plowing, loosening and other mechanical effects on the soil, and for traditional types of agriculture – plowing and deep loosening.
Even from nearby regions come to farmers for advice — they have more than 60 farms “under their wing”. Special attention is being paid to the issue of plant protection. They invite you to their fields, consult, consult on issues related to the acquisition, cultivation, protection and nutrition of plants.
The effectiveness of the application of the “Shchelkovsky” cultivation technology could be assessed by the example of the state of the flax field. On the day of the visit to the farm, the last wedges were removed here. Oilseed flax, which for the second year has perfectly fit into the crop rotation of the farm, gave a good harvest — 10 kg / ha.
“Flax turned out to be clean thanks to the use of protective equipment. Without them, the fields were weedy,” says Oleg Andreev.
The Andreevs are particularly proud of buckwheat fields. They coped with the weeds with “excellent”.
Part of the sown areas of Andreev are given for testing new crops. Last year, one hundred experimental hectares were occupied by Shchelkov sunflower hybrids. All 22 hybrids have proved themselves to be at the level of world standards.
In the neighboring field of one hundred hectares there are seven types of soybeans, including a new Bingo variety for the Samara region. Compared with the local variety Bilyavka, it ripens later, but wins in terms of the number and fullness of the pods. They are not three, as usual, but four beans.
“There are special Shchelkov preparations to accelerate maturation,” Oleg Andreev shares, “so the harvesting time can be adjusted.”
Soy is being farmed for the second year — while this crop is new. We went to Bashkiria for seeds, two varieties were brought from there, there is also an elite — from the farm Tsiruleva E.P., three varieties, almost two tons, from the company Shchelkovo Agrochem. Bingo varieties, Shchelkovsky Commander of breeding, showed themselves worthily, the Samer-1 variety gave a good result.
High start
Anton Kunyaev is a beginner farmer, he organized a farm in 2019. Now he has about 1.5 thousand hectares under cultivation in the village of Lopatino in the Krasnoyarsk region. The main part of the crops is occupied by sunflower, it also sows grain crops: barley, wheat, oats. Uses traditional agriculture — plows and deep loosens.
“This year I switched to the Shchelkovsky classic hybrid and immediately saw the result,” the farmer said. — Since this year I have been taking preparations for cereals, sunflower.” Among the main advantages of working with a supplier, Anton Kunyaev calls optimal prices, availability of delivery and good results on the field.
According to him, despite the same processing, other sunflower brands were not up to par this year, and the Shchelkovsky hybrid looks excellent. Of course, there has not been a harvest yet, but already now you can understand that there will be a good harvest.
Of the preparations, Anton Kunyaev used Octopus extra (a continuous herbicide), insecticides, and next year plans to use a seed protectant. By the way, the insecticide Espero KS literally saved the sunflower harvest this year from the moth, and the grains from the Kuzka beetle, bedbugs and other pests.
He also liked biostimulants, which include amino acids, macro- and microelements, including titanium. The results of sunflower leaf feeding appeared almost immediately. Of the additional advantages of working with the company, the farmer noted the possibility of lending. Often, drugs are needed today, and you can pay off after harvesting. “And the most important thing is that they have high—quality plant protection products. I plan to switch completely to the preparations of Shchelkovo Agrochem,” Anton Kunyaev said.
Ilgam Shakurov, Head of the Samara Representative Office of Shchelkovo Agrochem JSC:
— We are working on the revival of domestic breeding and seed production and providing Russian producers with high-quality seeds, which is especially important in the conditions of sanctions. The farms that work with us have consistently very good harvests. Including those varieties of seeds that we sell. The development of seed production and breeding, the introduction of new plant protection products to the market are areas that ensure not only the food security of the country, but also its agrarian independence.
Oleg Andreev, chief agronomist of the farm Andreeva N.V.:
— An important advantage of Shchelkovo Agrochem is that they offer not only good products, but are also ready to meet every farmer halfway: to train, advise, offer ready-made packaged products for each crop. Reference books, manuals — everything is worked out, painted. Even a beginner will figure it out. Now not all companies are ready to work with small farms, and Shchelkovo Agrochem is happy for everyone — they will make delivery directly to the fields, and installments will be issued.
Anton Kunyaev, head of the peasant (farmer) economy:
— I have already decided that I will switch to the products of Shchelkovo Agrochem. For me, as a novice farmer, it is important not only the quality of products, which I have already seen, a reasonable price, but also service. This company cares about customers, helps us, meets us halfway. There is a delivery, I called — they brought it right away during the day. This is very important when it comes to saving crops from pest infestations, for example. When we got a meadow moth, we had to take action immediately. And the supplier did not disappoint.
A source: https://volga.news/
