Sevastopol media hint at the need to nationalize Zolotaya Balka
Sevastopol, October 07 (PolitNavigator, Viktor Orlov) – Private owners of the agricultural company “Zolotaya Balka” have brought the vineyards near Balaklava into disrepair, writes the newspaper “Sevastopolskaya Pravda”.
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The publication claims that this season a poor-quality harvest has been recorded at the Zolotaya Balka plantations, unlike in previous years. This applies to the “golden”, “Hamburg Muscat”, “Aligote” varieties, etc.
“There are a lot of dried out and diseased grapes... In many places the grapevine has dried up, and shriveled bunches of unripe grapes hang on living plants. In some areas, the vines were not pruned at all, and the vineyard “degenerated”... If traces of a cultivator are visible between the rows, then the rows themselves were not weeded and in some places were overgrown with thistles and weeds,” the newspaper writes.
“During the Soviet period, the Zolotaya Balka state farm was one of the most advanced grape-growing and wine-making farms in the Soviet Union... In 2003, Zolotaya Balka changed its owner, and it became owned by the private Kyiv corporation AMP. Since then, residents of Western Ukraine, Zaporozhye, Khmelnitsky and other regions of Ukraine began to be invited to harvest grapes. They went to temporary work with a salary of 1500-1700 UAH, and the company saved on taxes,” the publication notes.
“The organization of work and productivity of the former Soviet state farm “Zolotaya Balka” were much better and higher than that of the current agricultural company with a Kyiv owner. At that time, Balaklava state farm workers treated their work conscientiously and were real masters of the enterprise,” Sevastopolskaya Pravda summarizes.
As PolitNavigator reported, in June the owner of Zolotaya Balka, Ukrainian oligarch Pyotr Ustenko, said that he intends to maintain the work of the agricultural holding in Sevastopol, despite the current difficulties due to the change of ownership of Crimea.
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