Chashniki District is the first in the Vitebsk region to complete the mass harvesting of grain crops

August 15, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. The Chashniki district is the first in the Vitebsk region to complete the mass harvesting of grain and leguminous crops, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

The district's farms have mowed over 16 thousand hectares, which is about 97% of the areas to be harvested. About 52 thousand tons have been threshed with an average yield of 32.5 centners per hectare. In addition, over 80% of the grain areas in the personal plots of citizens have been mowed in the district, with a threshed amount of over 1.3 thousand tons, and an average yield slightly exceeding 30 centners per hectare.

Farms in the Verkhnedvinsk and Lepel districts, where over 90% of the areas have been mowed, as well as in the Gluboksky and Orsha districts (about 90% of the areas), are close to completing the harvest.

Grain growers of the Orsha district have surpassed the threshold of 100 thousand tons threshed, while the district maintains the highest average yield in the region - 34 centners per hectare.

As of August 15, grain and leguminous crops have been mowed on 343 thousand hectares across the region, which is about 78% of the areas to be harvested. 1 million 75 thousand tons have been threshed with an average yield of 31.4 centners per hectare. In addition, over 37% of the areas in personal plots of citizens and farms have been harvested, with about 25 thousand tons of grain threshed at an average yield of about 30 centners per hectare.

Farms in the region have harvested malting barley on an area of 17.3 thousand hectares, or over 71% of the plan, with 48 thousand tons of this crop threshed at an average yield of 27.8 centners per hectare. Flax has been pulled on an area of about 15.9 thousand hectares, or over 88% of the plan.

Winter rapeseed has been sown on an area of over 36 thousand hectares, which is 72.4% of the planned sowing area for this crop.-0-