About 300 households that grow vegetables in their backyards in the Stolin district, Brest region, took part in an EU-funded networking project aimed at the introduction of modern technologies and practices in small-scale private vegetable farming.
The project was carried out between November 2013 and 2016 by the Stolin Centre for Rural Development in partnership with the Fert, a French association for international cooperation for agricultural development in developing and emerging countries. The project was aimed at encouraging private vegetable farmers to cooperate by sharing their experience and jointly buying seeds and agricultural equipment and selling their produce.
Thirty-two experiments designed to fight the fungal infections of plants more efficiently and introduce new vegetables, fertilizers and herbicides in the district were conducted as part of the project. Participants received funds to jointly buy and use agricultural equipment, attended seminars and exhibitions in Belarus and made study trips to Hungary and Poland.
