Ivan Sleptsova biography

Sleptsov Ivan Ivanovich today celebrates the day of an agricultural worker and processing industry. In our republic, this holiday is close to the villagers, since from time immemorial the peoples of the North survived in such severe climatic conditions, thanks to the traditional branches of livestock. And much of the future indigenous peoples inhabiting Yakutia depends on how agriculture will develop further.

On the eve of the holiday, we talked with one of the few professional farmers in our parliament - the People’s Deputy of the State Assembly of the Republic of Assembly Il Tumen Ivan Sleptsov. Labor childhood is Ivan Ivanovich, tell us a little about my childhood, family ... - I was born in the village of Walba Alekseevsky, now Tattinsky ulus, in the homeland of Ivan Ivanovich Sleptsov.

He worked before retirement in Sahartransnefttest. In early childhood, we moved to the mother’s homeland to Ust-Aldan district. I graduated from the Muryun secondary school in the district center. Mom - Zinaida Ivanova - worked as a teacher in kindergarten.

There were three of us in the family, I am the eldest son, I have a sister and there was a younger brother. At school, I studied well, but it happened that I received the "three". Favorite lessons - geography and history. I loved horses very much. Of course, from an early age we were familiar with livestock, with all types of rural labor. In addition, the class from the fifth I worked in summer labor camps, earned, as I recall, 60 rubles, and this was quite decent money.

So I earned myself, for example, on a bicycle. We just lived next to her. There was a large garden at the station, where we raised different vegetables: in the greenhouse - cucumbers, tomatoes, on open ground - potatoes and other root crops. They also mowed the grass, worked as shepherds, finished cows in the villages of Arylah and Walba. So, the practices were more than enough.

About horses - why did you love horses? Also, my father bought a mare, which I was happy to take care of. From six years, I went on horseback well, and when I first visited horse races, I fell in love with horses and horse sport forever. In our class there was a whole group of boys who did not miss a single jump, they knew about the horses everything that could be recognized in those days.

Of course, I was also among them. We then lived horses and all our conversations were about jumps and horses. Students - did you work after school in production? The competition was large - five people claimed one place. Our generation grew in the villages, where there were large state farms, large farms. There was work and good salaries in the village then. Zooengeners were very in demand and are needed at every state farm.

I studied and worked as a loader. In the fall, everywhere they needed young people to unload vegetables. There was no money and paid for work with potatoes, cabbage. We stored ourselves, and excess sold. In the same way I earned the first refrigerator. Of course, parents helped with food, so we did not particularly starve in the hostel. In the year, I was offered to go to work in the Olenek ulus, and I agreed.

There I worked from for a year. They were engaged in the harvesting of meat and milk, wild -rose. Then we had bakeries and shops in almost every nasal, that is, our requirements had a large retail network. In South Yakutia - then you were appointed to lead the Neryungrinsky poultry farm ... - Yes, it was also a very interesting page in my biography. I worked in Neryungri eight years since the years.

These were very fruitful years, and I believe that we coped with the tasks, having achieved very good results. Having completely changed the work of the enterprise, we began to receive from one laying down on average on eggs per year. This is a very good indicator. Additionally, a new production on the basis of the Neryungri poultry farm for residents of the republic was opened - this is the production of Boiler poultry, they sold tons of meat in slaughterhouses.

The Minister of Agriculture was then Ayal Ivanovich Stepanov, who supported the work of the Neryungrin poultry farm. You worked in the north, in the south of Yakutia, as well as in your native Zarechye. Didn't they work in the Vilyui group of districts? The problems of agriculture are as well as problems in agriculture, which I would like to talk with you in more detail.

All the time you have to hear from different people and at different levels that agriculture in Yakutia is incomprehensible, expensive and better to bring everything from the outside than to grow it yourself. Do you agree with this? Especially in the light of current events, when we do not know reliably what future awaits us, whether to carry something and where. The war-one, and people need to eat regularly.

Yakutia may well provide itself with the main products: meat, milk, vegetables, potatoes, albeit not completely. It may not be so obvious, but every family living in the city is well “feeded” by relatives from the village. As for problems in agriculture, in my opinion the problem is that, unfortunately, only small -scale production is developing so far. And I, being a manufacturer, is a rating for the balance of the production of large and small farms.

Or a Yakut poultry farm?What will the townspeople eat? These large production enterprises are very necessary for support and the population themselves need. Also, the farms, if they were larger, would be easier to develop. Now we have LPH - personal subsidiary farms, peasant farms and SKPKs - collective farms that are engaged in traditional agricultural sectors in the field.

There are few such large livestock farms such as “crosses”. Ministerial affairs - what ideas and projects did you manage to realize when you were the Minister of Agriculture? I remember how hotly we were then supported by People's Deputy Elena Khristoforovna Golomareva. The republic began to allocate 25 thousand rubles to reindeer herders, and added 10 thousand, and the reindeer herders for the first time began to receive a tangible salary.

Also, much attention was paid to the financing of new technologies, capital production facilities, and special equipment. For example, they organized the work of the energy center at the Yakut poultry farm, which sharply reduced energy consumption and made it possible to expand production. They paid much attention to the development of dairy and meat livestock, artificial insemination.

They brought new cultural breeds of cattle such as the Simmental, Red Stepnaya, Herophore, Kalmyk breeds. Also, then a very useful program for the development of rural territories worked, according to which we began to give subsidies for the construction of houses to rural residents. Every year, the order of new houses in the republic was built. Then, agricultural producers began to issue grants “Beginning Farmer”, “Family Livestock Farms”.

During my leadership, the Federal Minister of Agriculture came to our republic four times, that is, we had good support from the center. Thirteen billion rubles is an article in the last budget adopted. But it is necessary to provide them with the development and perspective, on the development of the agricultural sector, tribal work, new farms ... Only then will there be an effect. The ministry should not only deal with the distribution of funds for current expenses, it should think about the future.

About a shortage of personnel - what is the root of this, what do you think? Having studied, many graduates go to work not in their specialty, but to where they pay more. The average salary for young specialists in the field of agriculture is 30 thousand rubles. And trading in the market by an ordinary seller, you can earn twice as much. And these are problems that can also be solved by systemic transformations.

Rural residents should also earn enough, their work should be respected, there should be more jobs in rural areas. One in the field is not an employee - and, being a deputy Il Tumen, you can make the necessary amendments for this ... - The modern parliament, frankly, has very few opportunities to make a Kaik any significant changes. All our laws must comply with federal.

So it turns out that system decisions should be made at the federal level. But the problem is not only in the budget, but also in our mentality, which is high time to change. Time showed that working alone in the village is hard. That is, the time has come to consolidate again, enlarge the farms. Take even the current situation with an appeal. If the head of the farm was mobilized or, God forbid, something happened to him for a different reason, there is no one to continue his work and many farms cease to exist so much.

There is a saying: one in the field is not a warrior that can be applied to agriculture: one in the field is not an employee. Only in a large farm, where there are equipment, personnel, working hands where new technologies are mastered, you can work productively. Water will be more expensive than oil - how do you see the future? If difficult times come, we will have to remember everything: how to hold a plow, a shovel, a lot to work physically ...

- Can we do it? Not so long ago we broke away from the ground. Recall and we will work as well as our ancestors, but, I hope, significantly mechanizing and facilitating labor.