What rules must be followed when carrying out an agricultural fall?

On April 17, 2021, employees of the OCHS and the police of the Karasu district conducted a raid on explanatory conversations with employees of Karaman-K LLP and the population of the village of Karasu on the following topics: "Compliance with fire safety requirements during the sowing campaign, agricultural fall", "Compliance with fire safety requirements when burning garbage and household waste", as well as"Compliance with fire safety requirements in forest and steppe areas". The coverage of the instructed persons was 19 people, who were given 57 memos in the state and Russian languages in order to consolidate the information received.

The Emergency Service of the Karasu district warns the heads of agricultural organizations, heads of peasant farms that according to the "Fire Safety Rules" (paragraph 1015 of the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 9, 2014 No. 1077), work on annealing grass vegetation, fire residues, straw (hereinafter referred to as agricultural fallen) is carried out by the heads of agricultural enterprises (farms) in compliance with the following fire safety measures:

-before the start of the agricultural pala, it is organized to instruct its employees, as well as participants of this event, on compliance with fire safety requirements, on ways to extinguish fires;

- responsible persons are appointed for the duration of the agricultural fall;

-in the case of agricultural bollards in areas adjacent to woodlands, the forest owners are informed one day before the work is carried out;

- patrol posts equipped with fire-fighting equipment at the rate of one fire tanker or adapted equipment, one tractor with a plow, fire extinguishers, shovels are set up at the places where agricultural fires are held;

-before carrying out, the territory of agricultural bollards is plowed with a strip of at least 8 meters wide and divided into plots of no more than 25 hectares;

- woodlands, forest clearings, protective strips and landscaping areas adjacent to the burned areas are plowed to a width of at least 8 meters;

- agricultural bollards are carried out with a wind force of no more than 3 shafts (5 meters per second), on plowed areas under the control of responsible persons and workers;

-in order to prevent the rapid spread of fire, the agricultural fall begins on the windward side;

Gorenje Gorenje-at the end of the agricultural fall, a thorough survey of the perimeter of the burned area is provided, identification and elimination of all places of smoldering and hotbeds of burning, and the deployment of guards within 3 hours to prevent a possible resumption of burning.

According to the "Rules of Fire safety in Forests" (paragraph 35 of the Order of the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 23, 2015 No. 18-02 / 942), individuals and legal entities whose land is adjacent or located in close proximity to the forest fund lands and (or) are located in the forest protection zone, do not damage forests and other forest lands as a result of uncontrolled burning of stubble, stubble and other plant residues in agricultural fields, pastures and hayfields.

For violation of the above rules, administrative responsibility is provided for in the absence of signs of a criminal punishable act!!

 

Chief Specialist
of Emergency room
of Karasu district

Zeynollin A. E.

Publication date

21 April 2021

Date of update

21 April 2021

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