State aid looks good on paper: Kursk farmer in despair promises Putin to burn crops
Farmer and student Anastasia Dolgopolova who lives in Kursk region recorded a video appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The girl says her crops will be burnt because they are not able to gather it. In her opinion, the state support promised by the Russian leadership to farmers remains only on paper.
According to the farmer, she believed Putin and his system and opened a farm to ‘help her homeland’ under the sanctions, but soon realized that no one needed it.
The girl managed to meet with the governor of Kursk region, who ordered to lease out 100 hectares of land and old warehouses to her, but the order was not fulfilled. Moreover, three days after the meeting with the governor, the warehouses were burnt.
Dolgopolova also failed to get a grant for young farmers because she has ‘very little land, and there is no necessary equipment’.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich, tell me, who are young farmers who are already in ownership of more than a thousand hectares of land and all the necessary equipment?” she asks the Russian leader.
Despite all these problems, the girl managed to sow a 60-hectare field. According to her, it produced ‘heavy crops’, but she is not able to gather it.
“As we have no other way out, we bought 600 liters of diesel fuel with the last of our money and decided to burn this field,” said Anastasia. She promised to do it in the presence of journalists in order to warn the Russians who decide to get into agriculture.
