Among the leaders in the pace of the 2011 harvest are the farms of Chashniki and Verkhnedvinsk districts, which have mowed down more than 80% of the areas to be harvested, as well as Glubokoye (77.4%), Lepel (73.7%), and Sharkovshchina (71.3%) districts. The highest grain yield - 36.1 cwt/ha - is maintained in the farms of Orsha district, which also make the largest contribution to the regional harvest, having threshed almost 82.5 thousand tons of grain. Malting barley has been mowed down on an area of about 10.8 thousand hectares, or 44.4% of the sown areas. 31.4 thousand tons of this crop have been threshed with an average yield of 29.1 cwt/ha. In fulfillment of the state order, the region's farms have delivered about 126.5 thousand tons of grain, which is about 68% of the plan. Flax has been pulled on an area of almost 11.9 thousand hectares, or about 60% of the plan. Winter rapeseed crops for the 2012 harvest already occupy about 11.5 thousand hectares, which is 23% of the planned sowing area for this crop.