The number of thousand-crew crews in the Vitebsk region is more than 3.5 times higher than last year

August 29, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA/. More than 240 combine crews in the Vitebsk region have passed the mark of 1 thousand tons of grain during the harvest campaign, which is more than 3.5 times higher than the result of 2010. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the regional committee of the trade union of agricultural workers.

The largest number of "thousand-tonners" - 33 crews - worked in the fields of the Orsha district, as well as in the Dubrovno (28 crews) and Vitebsk (24) districts. In the "individual standings", combine operators Leonid Paramonov and Alexander Karazeev from SPC "Kolkhoz "Olgovskoye" of the Vitebsk region threshed the most. The Vitebsk residents on the KZS-1218 combine put more than 2.4 thousand tons of grain into the granaries, surpassing in the final stage of the harvest combine operator Vladimir Lapkovsky (threshing almost 2.3 thousand tons) from JSC "Prudinki" of the Verkhnedvinsk region. The third result belongs to Anatoly Zhilinsky from the Lepel Variety Testing Station, who threshed slightly more than 2 thousand tons on the KZS-1218.

16 crews managed to overcome the mark of 1.5 thousand tons of grain, including two crews of young combine operators. In total, 29 youth crews managed to thresh more than 1 thousand tons of grain, including six from the Dubrovno and five from the Miory districts.

The leader in terms of yield among enterprises is SPC "Kolkhoz "Olgovskoye" of the Vitebsk region, whose specialists managed to obtain an average of 58.1 centners per hectare.

According to data as of August 29, in total in the region, grain crops have been mown on an area of about 422 thousand hectares, or 95.5% of the areas to be harvested. More than 1.2 million tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 29.4 centners per hectare.

In the region, mass sowing of winter grains is underway, which already occupy 17.4 thousand hectares, or 7% of the plan, and mass harvesting of corn for feed (almost 11% of the crops of this culture have been mown). -0-