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To achieve our goals, the corporation integrates the experiences of the world’s best agrarians, analyzes climatic and soil factors of specific regions and their conformity with the conditions necessary for effective crop growing, and also develops rational land cultivation technologies in order to ensure efficiency and to drive down costs.
The modern milk production complex consists of four cowsheds, milk shed, calf shed, and maternity barn where 1000 heads of Ukrainian black-and-piebald dairy breed are kept. This breed is characterized by its well adaptation to local conditions and its disease-resistance.
The latest Italian MILKY LINE installed equipment provides high development and productivity rates, production of top-quality milk and ensures automation of all production processes. While milking (three times a day) the product undergoes analysis, filtering, and refrigeration. The analysis is made in two phases:
Our milk is a certified, high-quality, and ecologically clean, allowed to be used for children’s food production.
Another advantage of automation is thorough examination of each animal’s physiological state by way of special sensors which record and analyze activity, feeding, lactation days, and the number of days after insemination. The received data is then processed by the mainframe computer. Automatic "selection gates" select animals suspected of being sick, estimate the diagnosis, and send animals to a special animal hospital for further examination by a veterinarian.
The feed supply base enables usage of the same type of feed during the whole year. The feeding process is performed by a feed distribution machine with a computer onboard which measures forage components, makes the mix, and feeds it to an animal feed table.
The entire operation of the complex is controlled by 20 employees.
To achieve the planned production indices we provide optimal conditions and use highly efficient technologies:
Storing apples in a CA storage is quite a new technology for keeping fruit safe providing low carbon dioxide and oxygen concentration (around 1%) in low temperatures.
Fruits interact with the environment through a process of breathing and heat emitting. A certain amount of heat is used by cells for metabolic reactions and for evaporation, while some is stored in the form of chemically bound energy. The biological role of breathing is to supply live fruit tissue with energy necessary for their vital functions.
Alongside with moisture evaporation, breathing is accompanied by the loss of the fruit’s weight. Though such loss is natural, its level may be reduced by regulating breathing intensity and evaporation of moisture, which is of practical importance.
Compared to common storage, this technology ensures better fruit quality, color, and weight. Carbon dioxide facilitates ethylene biosynthesis, its biological ripening processes.
Fruits are stored in CA chambers with the temperature 0...+2?Ñ and relative air humidity of 90-95%. Carbon dioxide and oxygen content is regulated by gas analyzers which control automatically scrubbers and diffusers.
When the required concentration of carbon dioxide is reached, the chambers are switched to a preset mode by turning on the scrubber/diffuser unit, and the excessive carbon dioxide is lowered to the required level.
Biohumus is a product of vital importance to the red Californian worm, a loose fine-granulated mass with granule size 1-3 mm.
The Podilsky Bioihumus is composed of concentrated organics, which contain in a balanced proportion all necessary nutrients, microelements, ferments, soil antibiotics, vitamins, and growth-promoting hormones. It also contains a considerable amount of humic acids. The Podilsky Biohumus is also a microbiological nutrient with a unique composition of microorganisms which enhance soil quality. Biohumus doesn’t contain pathogens, helminthes eggs, protozoan cysts, maggots of synanthropic flies, or weed seeds. It is well digested by plants throughout their growth-period.
Biohumus is used as the main organic fertilizer when planting and preparing all types of agricultural crops, in forestry, flower growing, during soil reanimation and re-cultivation.
Biohumus may be introduced to an open soil from early spring to late fall. It is an organic fertilizer of prolonged effect which retains its efficiency for two-four years.
Due to high concentration of microorganisms – producers of chitinase which decomposes chitin (contained in outer skeleton of insects), biohumus may be used to fight insects. To protect plants against insects, one should:
Biohumus is efficient against insects during three months.
When handling biohumus, you have to observe general safety rules.
Biohumus is safe for humans, animals, and bees.
Pipes are laid in the field parallel to each other, and are connected with one end to the common main pipeline through which water is supplied from a pump and filtering station. Distance between pipes and between holes on pipe, depth of burying inside soil, and pipe diameter may vary depending on the crop being grown and the soil type. Therefore, root irrigation allows the reduction of water consumption up to 2-3 times. Because of this, vegetable growing becomes possible even in areas where it was previously impossible due to water shortages. For example, in North Africa farmers gather over 100 tons of tomatoes per hectare on sand using drip irrigation. Use of drip irrigation systems simultaneously with the feed of fertilizer solutions – fertigation (composed from two words, fertilizer and irrigation) allows one to continuously maintain soil moisture at the optimal ratio in the “water-air” system and it results in a higher coefficient of fertilizer assimilation by plants. When drip irrigation systems are used, all elements contained in the solution are fed in exact doses, including control of the quantity of solution per unit of irrigated land. In addition, this system introduces balanced quantities of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other nutritional elements with consideration of growth phases and seasonal needs of plants. Introduction of fertilizers through drip systems increases the coefficient of their use by 25-30% on the average and decreases total use of fertilizers by 15-35%. Unlike regular drip irrigation, fertigation allows not only for the more efficient use of fertilizers, but also prevents contamination of soil waters and the conditions of secondary salinization of soil.
It is money-saving and quite simple. First, grain from the cart-lift trucks into the car through the boot upper bunker. Then grain's way goes into the machine where it under the pressure from its own weight goes into the bag. Controlling the density and stretching of the bags must be carried out in the process of loading all the time. For this purpose there are colored strips on the side of the bag. By the way, during the first two weeks all the insects, pests and fungi become inactive, because there are no fit conditions for the growth of harmful organisms. Accordingly, the grain does not need to be treated with insecticide, what is very important.
There are also some tips how to use this technology correctly: no way loading grain during rain and ground platform should be carefully prepared for cars not to slip. Basic care of the bags is in the regular examination for fractures and periodic inspection of the grain to check its state. If somewhere there is a crack, it has to be carefully glued up with a special adhesive tape.
"Svarog West Group" corporation estimated all the benefits this new technology can provide and has made a decision to try it on the own fields. Now we have 19 bags with corn on the Shepetivskyj region fields and 42 of them in Chernivtsi (southern region is better for the corn growing because of climate conditions). Every bag is airproof with the length of 67 meters and 2, 71 in diameter. Such a bag can hold near 200 tons of any grain.
Laboratory analyses prove that corn storage quality is very high.