The Vitebsk Regional Control Committee has established facts of poor cleaning in two inspected districts

July 25, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The Vitebsk Regional Committee for State Control has established facts of low-quality harvesting of rapeseed, grain and leguminous crops, and above-norm losses of oilseeds and grain by grain harvesting combines, the regional control department informed a BELTA correspondent. As of July 24, 20 out of 21 districts in the region, except for the Liozno district, have started harvesting grain and leguminous crops. As of this date, grain and leguminous crops have been harvested on an area of 4.1 thousand hectares, which is 0.8% of the planned area. 13.9 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 34.2 centners per hectare. Last year, as of this date, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on 8.4% of the areas. The regional Committee for State Control studied the situation with the readiness of the material and technical base and the progress of the harvest in six agricultural organizations in the Tolochin and Orsha districts and established facts of low-quality harvesting of cruciferous, grain and leguminous crops, and above-norm losses of oilseeds and grain by grain harvesting combines. For example, at JSC "Kohanovo-Agro" in the Tolochin district, on the day of the inspection, five grain harvesting combines were harvesting winter rapeseed in one of the tracts on an area of 13 hectares. One grain harvesting combine was allowing above-norm losses of oilseeds of about 0.2 centners per hectare. At the request of the Committee for State Control employees, the combine was stopped, and the cover of the chamber, which caused the losses, was sealed. At JSC "SGC "Zadneprovsky" in the Orsha district, on the day of the inspection, winter wheat was being harvested on an area of 153 hectares, where there were patches of lodged grain. However, only 6 out of 11 combines were equipped with a full set of stalk lifters. It was established that two combines were allowing above-norm grain losses. Due to the fact that they were operating at a high cut with an incomplete set of stalk lifters on the lodged areas of wheat, they were allowing above-norm grain losses of approximately 0.6 centners per hectare in uncut ears. In addition, control and analytical measures showed that the actual readiness of grain harvesting combines and grain cleaning and drying complexes in some of the inspected farms was low, and some farms did not have a sufficient fuel supply. -0-