Volga lights № 5 "The troubles and joys of the field" (1997)

Newsreel 1940: the locust invasion of the field Uryupinsky district of the Volgograd region, the struggle against the locust forces of the peasants.

Modern surveys - locust again in the fields.

The head of the regional plant protection station of the Volgograd region R. Lipchanskaya tells about the history of locust control in the Volgograd region.

Inspection of plants in the fields.

Refueling of the AN-2 aircraft with plant spray equipment.

The plane takes off and sprays means against the locust above the fields.

Moving tractor on the sides of the nest of the locust.

Says agronomist V. Ponomarev.

A tractor with a sprayer is driving across the field and spraying the beds of plants, a dying locust in a corn field.

A small river, on the banks of a large herd of cows.

Piterka village in the Saratov region - streets, buildings.

Old windmill.

Harvesting wheat by combines and loading into KAMAZ trucks.

The guide inspects a rich harvest.

Says the head of the administration of the St.

Petersburg region of the Saratov region, Viktor Nikolaevich Deryabin.

Technique on the fields - svolakivanie and storing straw, plowing.

Collection and shipment of the harvest.