Natalia Kochanova visited Dokshitsky district on a working visit
There are 34 houses left in the village, 19 of which are permanently inhabited by local residents, mainly pensioners. Five houses are used as dachas. This year, employees of Dokshitsy Rayagorservice demolished vacant houses on six plots and brought a total of 2.2 hectares of land into circulation. Agricultural crops have already been sown here. Valery Naumchik noted that work with vacant houses is ongoing.
Having visited the settlement, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova inquired about other ways the freed-up land is being used, besides agricultural circulation. Valery Naumchik, Chairman of the Parafyanovo Village Council, explained that local residents wishing to expand their land plots are offered to purchase additional areas, and information is also posted on the village council's website so that anyone can buy plots for construction or for subsidiary farming.
Thanks to Decree No. 116 "On the alienation of residential houses in rural areas and the improvement of work with vacant houses," local authorities can carry out such work in shorter periods. As noted by Vladimir Terentyev, head of the Vitebsk region's parliamentary group, in the first few months of last year, since the decree came into force, the region's budget received over Br68 thousand from the sale of vacant houses.
Natalia Kochanova emphasized that one of the trends among the younger generation is to return to their small homeland, to buy land plots not for farming, but for recreation in a comfortable house with all amenities. Such villages as in Svirki can become an attractive place for young families, where they can build a summer house quite affordably.
As for those plots whose owners are single or live, for example, in boarding houses, the assigned organizations maintain order on them. In particular, in Svirki, the village is mowed and landscaped by the employees of the Parafyanovskaya Secondary School. Local residents take care of their plots.
The Chairperson of the Council of the Republic, Natalia Kochanova, also visited the Parafyanovskaya Secondary School in the Dokshitsy district, where she presented the educational institution with sets for physical education classes and other gifts.
For the schoolchildren, the Chairperson of the Council of the Republic brought sports balls, tents, and a certificate for the purchase of an acoustic system. Natalia Kochanova talked with the children, inquired about their academic achievements, hobbies, and plans for entering universities and colleges. The students said that almost all of them live in the same settlement where the school is located, and children from neighboring villages are brought by bus. The eleventh-graders noted that they have already decided on their future profession and are purposefully working towards admission. The place of study will be the capital or regional centers.
The school has production classes, and girls attend electives on labor training. Parafyanovo schoolgirls are attracted to various types of needlework and applied arts, including those that combine folk crafts, such as straw weaving and embroidery. Some girls presented their works, and Natalia Kochanova noted their high skill.
The educational institution also implements the "School Garden" project. As the school principal Viktor Korostik explained, this project helps to familiarize rural children with the possibilities of agribusiness. During labor lessons, students, under the guidance of teachers, not only learn methods for growing high-yield crops but also grasp the basics of entrepreneurship in agriculture. What vegetable varieties are best suited for the area, how to create the most favorable conditions for agricultural crops, where to find markets for the produced goods – such knowledge can become a good foundation for young residents of the district to start their own business.
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