Our Chance

The film tells about a folk farmer, the former director of the MTS of one of the agricultural enterprises of the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, a resident of the village of Trusovo V.P. Ushakov and about his experiments in soil cultivation, which allow improving soil fertility and crop yields. 1st part. Meadow flowers. Traffic and pedestrian traffic on a city street. Smoking factory chimneys. Children in gas masks pass by the smoky thermal power station. Dirty water is poured out of the pipe into the reservoir. The water is discharged into the underground drain. Tillage and fertilization in the field in spring. Harvesting wheat with a combine harvester. Photos of Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences V.I. Vernadsky and field grower T.S.Maltsev. President of the Association "Academy of New Thinking" YN Zabrodotsky gives an interview in which he criticizes the modern farming practice on the principle of taking more than giving (sinhr.). 2nd part. Garden and vegetable garden on the personal plot of V.P. Ushakov in the village of Trusovo. V.P. Ushakov at work in the garden: watering the beds; covers the beds in the greenhouse with polyethylene; forms an experimental bed for the preparation of humus; makes depressions in the soil for planting material with a special marker of its own manufacture; planting and harvesting potatoes according to its own method. Various agricultural devices made by V.P. Ushakov for planting plants and fertilizing the soil. V.P. Ushakov at work on the drawing at home. V.P. Ushakov talks about the technology of farming in small areas and plots (sinhr.).

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1992