Lukashenka: He Held His Hands High to Control the Horse, It's Useful Now

The dictator walked down memory lane of his childhood on the field in Aleksandria.

During his business trip to farms in Shklou and Orsha districts Lukashenka told about the "presidential field" near his small homeland and shared his memories of childhood, BelTA informs.

This field is also unusual because it locates on the territory of two regions - Mahilyou and Vitsebsk.

According to Lukashenka, he used to work on that field when he was a boy, and he had two the most vivid memories. "First, when I controlled a horse when I hilled up potatoes. The field was divided into three parts. It was 12 pm, it was really hot, there were many flies and gadflies, he told.

"And then I hilled up potatoes on my own (this is my second the most vivid impression) and my cousin controlled the horse. I was taller than him and he had to hold his hands high to control the horse," Lukashenka says.

"This is not the brightest memories of those times, but the most useful ones now," the ruler added.

The dictator said that now the area of the presidential field is about half a thousand hectares and some time ago he decided to make it a kind of experimental in cultivation of certain types of crops. "Let's agree that we, as I know this soil, will try to take an experiment here," Lukashenka said.

This year he ordered to sow winter wheat and hybrid diploid rye of foreign selection to assess their quality and yield.

In this connection, the ruler wondered how things were with domestic plant selection breeders. "I'd like to hear that we have something of this kind. If not, then when it comes? I was informed in advance that we have no problems with wheat. We have learned how to create our seeds, and they are not worse than imported ones in yield and quality," the ruler stated.

Lukashenka is reported in details about the work in the field and assured that there are domestic seeds that can compete in yield with foreign ones, and are even "better by certain indicators."