Opinion: our machine operators are simply in love with domestic equipment

July 30, MINSK. Our machine operators are simply in love with domestic equipment, Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Zayats said on the TV channel, BelTA informs.

"This year, the park has been updated with 1,592 units of agricultural machinery, of which 238 are grain harvesters, 70 are forage harvesters, the rest are tractors and chain agricultural machinery. Of course, a lot has been done to update our fleet in previous years. At the same time, output per person has increased tenfold , the production of agricultural products, grain - 30 times, the production of MILK per person increased 10 times. Because the old technologies were replaced by new ones, "Leonid Zayats said.

The Deputy Prime Minister stressed that today we do not buy imported equipment. "Our industry provides a complete line of agricultural machines for our technology. In 1991, only 13% of the required volume of agricultural equipment was produced. Today, our engineering enterprises provide 100% of the line of equipment that is used in our technology. Approximately 15 "% of grain harvesters, 20% of forage harvesters are imported. Everything else is our domestic equipment," he noted. "I must say that domestic equipment has justified itself, our machine operators are simply in love with this machine. it is comfortable, simple, reliable in operation. And at a price it is three times cheaper than an imported combine."

"Due to the sanctions of Western countries, it is quite problematic to buy spare parts and service imported combine harvesters. On the other hand, it is very expensive. Therefore, at our specialized enterprises we already produce more than 600 types of spare parts for the equipment that was imported into our country by import The fact that we have preserved our industrial enterprises, developed combine construction, fodder harvesting equipment, fodder preparation for public animal husbandry is a very great merit of our state, - Leonid Zayats emphasized. - We just saved the country. Imagine if today day they exploited only imported equipment - we would not have removed our bread.And the strategic and tactical actions of our state were correct in order to develop domestic engineering.This is a very wise policy of the President of our country."