In Kursk branch "APK-Chernozemye" at the moment the procurement of fertilizers, seeds and pesticides, agricultural machinery repaired.

"While lying snow 50 centimeters, twenty below, but even if tomorrow all melted, then we would be able to go to work in the field, - says the chief agronomist of OOO "APK-Chernozemye" Vyacheslav Prozorov. - Equipment repaired by 90% almost ready to start the new season. Now have to start the seeds in early spring – sort, etched and packaged in bags. While the weather does not allow us to do it, a little later start. The volumes are small, have time to prepare everything. Last year we began work in March, but that was before the usual – it usually starts in late April."

Work on the preparation of seed will be performed on seed production complex of the Group, was commissioned in may last year, as well as on the currents in Naumivka and the Old Town. The first thing that will start field work – fertilizing winter wheat: the moisture, barnavie plowed fields.

In the Tver region crop company "Rucheiskoe" are also almost completely ready for the start of spring field work.

"We are 100% purchased fertilizer, left to buy seeds and pesticides, - says the chief agronomist of OOO "Rucheiskoe" Igor Afanasyev. - Agriculture is almost completely repaired. Field work will begin, most likely in mid-April. Let's start with the fertilizing of winter crops and perennial grasses BurnAware. The quality of the work on fertiliser application depends on when and what the crop we will get. In connection with the release of the second dairy unit of cattle at full capacity, greatly increased the demand for fodder crops. So this year nearly thousands of hectares increased area of sowing of perennial grasses".