Farmers in the Vitebsk region are completing the main spring field work

May 6, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Farmers in the Vitebsk region are completing the main spring field work, the deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Committee, Nikolai Olenich, told a BELTA correspondent. Spring grain and leguminous crops, as well as flax, have been fully sown. Rapeseed will be sown in the coming days. According to the operational report as of May 6, it remains to be sown on 10% of the planned area. Currently, farms have intensified work on sowing vegetables, potatoes, and corn. About half of the areas allocated for these crops have already been sown. According to Nikolai Olenich, the pace of field work remains high, reaching almost 4% per day, so it is planned to complete all sowing work in the near future. 323 thousand hectares are allocated for spring grain and leguminous crops in the region, over 20 thousand hectares for flax, 5.6 thousand hectares for potatoes, and almost 1.7 thousand hectares for vegetables. The target indicators of the socio-economic development forecast for the Vitebsk region for 2009 provide for the production of over 1.2 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, over 1.2 million tons of potatoes, 300 thousand tons of vegetables, 20 thousand tons of flax fiber, and over 1 million tons of milk. The expected growth in production in all categories of farms will be 109.5% compared to the 2008 level. -0-