Beshenkovichi district was the first in the Vitebsk region to fulfill the plan for sowing winter rapeseed

August 11, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA/. Farms in the Beshenkovichi district are the first in the Vitebsk region to complete the plan for sowing winter rapeseed, the Committee for Agriculture and Food of the Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

As of August 11, over 2 thousand hectares of this crop have been sown in the district, or about 98% of the plan. In the region as a whole, winter rapeseed occupies an area of almost 20.4 thousand hectares, which is about 41% of the plan. In addition, work on preparing for sowing winter cereals is gaining momentum in the region. Thus, over 104 thousand hectares of soil have been plowed for winter sowing, or 35% of the plan, glyphosate has been applied to 70.8 thousand hectares (35.5% of the target). Sowing of winter cereals in the Vitebsk region is planned to begin on August 20.

At the same time, this week farms in the Vitebsk region plan to exceed the mark of 1 million tons of grain threshed. As of the morning of August 11, the total harvest was over 940 thousand tons, with over 40.1 thousand tons of grain harvested in the past day. The average yield remains at 32 centners per hectare, and among the districts, farms in the Orsha district currently have the highest yield, with this indicator being 35.3 centners per hectare. Orsha agrarians have threshed almost 88 thousand tons of grain, which is also the most significant result of the current harvest.

In total, grain and leguminous crops have been harvested over an area of about 295 thousand hectares in the region, which is about 67% of the areas to be harvested. Farms in the Chashniksky and Verkhnedvinsky districts are closest to completing the mass harvest, with 89% and 87.1% of the areas harvested, respectively.

Agrarians of the region have delivered over 140 thousand tons of grain to fulfill the state order, which is more than 75% of the plan, including about 4 thousand tons of malting barley (over 13% of the plan) delivered to procurement organizations. Flax has been pulled on an area of over 13.3 thousand hectares, or about 74% of the plan.-0-