JSC "Gorodilovo": an experience worth repeating

Time will pass, and students-economists will study the secrets of managing JSC "Gorodilovo" of the Molodechno region. This is the assumption of those who are familiar with the agricultural enterprise and its DIRECTOR Dmitry Gramovich. The experience is truly amazing!

– We are fundamentally different from others in that in six years we have turned an economy with debts into an economically successful one! – Dmitry Nikolaevich determined the main achievement of JSC "Gorodilovo" straight off the bat. And he named some impressive figures demonstrating what an agricultural enterprise can achieve if professionals get down to business. Six years ago, when Dmitry Gramovich came here, the revenue was about 3 million rubles. At the end of 2022, it amounted to 34 million rubles, and net profit, according to preliminary estimates, is about 10 million rubles. The output per manufacturer is 250 thousand rubles.

Of course, there are giant enterprises that have higher sales and more attractive profits. But who was growing at such a pace as OJSC "Gorodilovo", not turning to an investor for financial support, or for loans to banks? Perhaps there are no more such agricultural holdings in the industry. The HEAD of the OJSC, whose balance sheet is an open book, is sure of this: come and learn.

What is the secret of the success of the economy, which once the state, along with debts, transferred to a private investor - OOO "Veles-Mit"? At the start - in the financial support of a business project. But this is only at the start. For 6 years of work, the farm has not taken a penny from the investor. Moreover, it returned to him the financial resources previously invested in raising a loss-making economy.

“Today, the OJSC does not owe anything not only to the investor, but also to the state, having fully returned to it the loans it once received, paying in full all the debts of its predecessors,” notes Dmitry Gramovich.

Obviously, if he had not come here six years ago together with the entire team of specialists, OJSC "Gorodilovo" would hardly have achieved such success.

By the way, the new director had excellent managerial experience at that time. Dmitry Nikolayevich invested not only knowledge and talent in mobilizing people to work in the previous agricultural enterprise with private investment. An important contribution was a hundred dairy cows, horses and the entire material asset of a personal (!) Farm, which he voluntarily "dispossessed" himself. And he proved that if a professional takes over the management of a business project, an agricultural enterprise and losses are incompatible things.

Raised an agricultural cooperative - and left there, I must say, on its rise, to OJSC "Gorodilovo", whose investor - LLC "Veles-Mit" - appreciated his previous experience, willingness to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and the ability to take risks and win . As you can see, everyone benefited from this decision.

We are especially proud of the tractor donated by the President at the Dazhynki-2021 festival. On the day of our arrival at OJSC "Gorodilovo" this gift was working in the neighboring farm of OJSC "Polochany", which in a little over a month officially, that is, de jure, will become another structural division of OJSC "Gorodilovo". De facto, both enterprises have long been working in one bundle. The arable lands of the tandem - OJSC "Gorodilovo" and OJSC "Polochany" - amount to 7 thousand hectares, and production volumes - 30% of the agricultural products of the Molodechno region.

characteristic fact. If six years ago OJSC "Gorodilovo" received 5,000 tons of grain, today, on the same lands - 12,000 tons. For the last five years, the average grain yield on the farm has been 70-80 q/ha. 50% of the profit comes from crop production, and the same amount from animal husbandry. It is important that here they not only observe agricultural technologies of cultivation, cultivation, maintenance and feeding, but also make a serious bet on selection both in crop production and in animal husbandry.

In OAO "Gorodilovo" there is practically no staff turnover. Not a single specialist has left here, which the leader has the right to be proud of. The main reason for such devotion to the native economy is earnings corresponding to labor.

“A person must know what he is working for. A leader is good not for his own income and the profit of his enterprise, but for the salary that people deserve, - concludes Dmitry Nikolayevich.

Specialists here, for example, receive up to 3-4 thousand rubles a month. Yes, and other workers are not offended: the average for the household is 2 thousand rubles (six years ago they earned 700 rubles a month). The company provides housing if the employee does not have one.

The family of the machine operator and machine milking operator Anastasia and Alexander Sventitsky live in such a wonderful house. Conscientious work is encouraged. Including family vacations at a foreign seaside resort, where the company sends in the spring to sunbathe, gain strength for the new agricultural season, two or three families annually.

The number of cattle here is 2,850 heads, of which a thousand is a dairy herd. In OJSC "Gorodilovo" they MILK 10.3 thousand kg per cow.

MTF "Gorodilovo" contains 200 dairy cows, the average annual milk yield of which is higher than the average for the farm - 11.5 thousand kg of milk.

“Here our dairy elite is highly Holsteinized cattle,” clarified the chief livestock specialist Ilya Golodko, walking along the tables generously filled with feed for cows. Due to the influx of Holsteinized blood, they have not only high productivity, but also a lighter color. That is, the black-and-white cattle here are white-and-white, "blonde", and the cows are clean not only by nature, but also thanks to care - the timely replacement of sawdust that evenly covers the rubberized rugs of their beds and places at the feed table. Cleaning on the farm - mechanized, four times a day. Livestock breeders Svetlana Bogdanova and Alexander Chernikov are responsible and kind. This is also appreciated by the wards, not forgetting to lick them gratefully.

- In the first place we have a cow. She remained the same as she was a breadwinner, - the head of the farm determines the priorities of the work and shares his dreams-plans (how could it be without them?): - Not so long ago, by order of the enterprise, they prepared a project for a new dairy complex for 3 thousand heads.

So far, there is no talk of construction... But we know that the realistic plans of a team that knows how to earn money have such a property - to come true.

January is in the yard, and preparations for the new agricultural season are in full swing. On the day of our arrival at OJSC "Gorodilovo" trucks lined up for the shipment of complex chemical fertilizers to the warehouse of the enterprise. At this time, other equipment was transporting organic fertilizers from farms to fields.

We visited the mechanical yard of OJSC "Gorodilovo", where the chief engineer Alexander Demashkevich drew our attention to an impressive fleet of agricultural machinery: eight power-packed tractors, as well as smaller agricultural "artillery" - about 40 units in total. Among them are Belarusian tractors MTZ, European Fendt and American John Deere. The company annually invests more than $1 million in the renewal of the technical fleet. Recently, four more grain harvesters were purchased in addition to the existing six combine harvesters - TM "Polesie".

“The load on harvesting equipment is serious: one of our combines skips as much grain as four machines in another farm,” says the chief engineer. We are thoroughly preparing for sowing and harvesting in advance. There are no questions to our equipment during the season.

Dmitry Gramovich: "The leader is good not for his own income and the profit of his enterprise, but for the salary that people deserve."

The company annually invests more than $1 million in equipment upgrades.

Tamara MARKINA