Ways to reduce losses of mineral fertilizers (1978)

A quote from L.I. Brezhnev’s speech.

A tractor drives across a field and applies fertilizer to the soil.

Close-up, a device for spreading fertilizer on a tractor hitch.

Shoots in a field.

Flowering fruit trees.

Panorama of fields, village houses in the foreground.

Central Institute of Agrochemical Service to Agriculture.

The director of the institute speaks.

Causes of fertilizer losses.

Fertilizer production plant.

Panoramic view of the plant.

Dispatch center at the enterprise.

Railroad dispatch center.

A dispatcher from the railway shop speaks.

Preparing wagons for loading fertilizers.

Broken wagon walls.

Fertilizer packaging line at the plant.

Loading wagons.

A train with fertilizers leaves the plant.

Checking the wagon loading.

A train with fertilizers travels to the consumer.

Fertilizers are poured out of the wagon.

Fertilizers scattered on the railway embankment.

Railroad warehouse.

The quality of the arriving batch of fertilizers is checked here.

A representative of Selkhoztekhnika, the recipient of fertilizers, speaks.

Unloading wagons.

Mineral fertilizers are unloaded by a special machine together with a belt conveyor.

Some of the fertilizers are blown away by the wind from the open conveyor belt.

To eliminate such losses, a special covering is laid.

Unloading wagons directly into receiving devices.

Conveyor system.

Loading fertilizers into piles.

Loading into motor transport for direct shipment to an agricultural enterprise.

Cartoon explaining the unloading process.

With such unloading, changes in the weather do not lead to losses.

Poor condition of warehouses lead to losses of fertilizers.

Final cleaning of wagons.

Silo towers for storing dust fertilizers.

Unloading of fertilizers and their feeding into the tower is carried out pneumatically.

Close-up, worker in a respirator.

Loading cars from a silo tower.

The driver delivering mineral fertilizers to the farm tells the story.

A car is demonstrated that is not prepared for transporting fertilizers.

The fertilizer load is poorly covered.

Transporting fertilizers on such a car.

Scale readings as the car leaves the warehouses of agricultural machinery.

Loss of fertilizers on the road.

Fertilizers are blown out from under the canopy.

Weight of the car upon arrival.

Loss of fertilizers is about 200 kg.

Cleaning the car body from fertilizers.

Storage of fertilizers in warehouse complexes of farms.

A representative of the agrochemical service tells.

Rules for storing fertilizers in warehouses of farms.

Rules for storing ammonium nitrate.

Wheat is earing.

A combine harvests the crop.