"An order is an order." Fields sown by young farmers were destroyed near Samara.
Young farmers in the Syzran district They lost their crops and millions of rubles: they were destroyed by a large agricultural holding that took over the fields previously allocated to farmers.
"I ran to the car and arrived, and there were tractors 'disc-ing' my crops, that is, kneading everything into the earth. I practically threw myself under the wheels. I shouted at them, 'What are you doing, guys?' They stopped, threw up their hands, and said, 'Brother, an order is an order.'"- рассказал "63.ru" is one of the farmers.
Brothers Alexander and Petr Okunev — villagers, a machine operator and a combine harvester driver. They decided to become independent farmers and contacted the district administration. Officials allocated them abandoned fields, promising to formalize the lease later. The brothers cleared the land of weeds, stumps, and rocks, plowed, and seeded. One day, the farmers received word that someone's equipment was operating in their fields, destroying their crops.
Before the farmers' eyes, the equipment destroyed 60 hectares of sunflowers and 150 hectares of wheat. The farmers lost about 8 million rubles.
It turned out that the district administration first verbally gave the land to the farmers, then became the owner of 141 hectares and sold them Agroholding "Koshelevsky Posad"The administration emphasized that the two farmers were not even tenants of the land.
The banks are demanding that the Okunevs repay the loan, but the police have refused to investigate the case. They intend to take legal action.
The Okunev brothers' story is far from unique: in the regions, small farmers often lose their land when it catches the eye of large holding companies. For example, the Rusagro holding company didn't let me collect harvest for small farmer in the Belgorod region, "AgroGrad-Lipetsk" in the Lipetsk region selected land from a smaller entrepreneur and farmer, in the Kuban and also go "Land wars." And the farmer's melon field from the Volgograd region destroyed just like that - it was convenient for the heavy equipment of a large entrepreneur to drive along it.
Photo: Alexander Oshchepkov
