The government of the Penza region encourages farmers to replace milkmaids robots. The price of one machine is about 7 million rubles, told journalists the Chairman of the regional government Vyacheslav eagle.

According to him, agriculture must be a youth, but not the milkmaids, and engineers. "Young people today is not going to farms with old conditions", - said the Deputy Chairman of the regional government, adding that going to offer small and medium-sized farms new path of development on the example of Kaluga region, where on 13 farms are 100 milking robots. From one cow on robotic farms receive up to 30 litres of milk a day. In the field the average milk production per cow for the year will amount to 4.2 tons, while in some households receive 9 tons, and others on the 1.3.

Vyacheslav eagle said that in the near future in the Kaluga region of Penza will come 50 heads of leading enterprises. "We want to offer our farmers projects with a payback of four years", he noted.

This year Penza farmers commissioned 85 abandoned farms, they may use robotics, noted in the regional Ministry of agriculture. Robotic milkers for them until they bought, these systems are only on large farm 4.6 thousand heads belonging to Agroholding "Rusmolco".

As reported by the interviewer. TASS at the Ministry of investment development and entrepreneurship of the Penza region, the region has a program by which entrepreneurs are subsidized from the budget of 30% of the cost of buying new equipment, including on dairy farms. In addition, the "beginning farmer" young people decided to start production of milk, can receive a grant of 1.5 million rubles.

According to Vyacheslav eagle, this year in the Penza region received 284 thousand tons of milk if you need to 460 thousand tons, with the majority produced in private households, which every year becomes less and less.

In agriculture of the Penza region, the average salary is 19 thousand rubles - this is the highest rate in the Volga Federal district. To support farmers in the region this year has allocated more than half a billion rubles.