The break-in of new equipment for sowing will begin in the Vitebsk region from mid-March

February 25, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. From mid-March, new equipment for sowing will be tested in the Vitebsk region, Alexander Kosinets announced today at a meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, BELTA correspondent reports. 120 MTZ tractors, 60 seeders, and 50 reversible plows are already ready for shipment to farms at Vitebsk dealer warehouses. By the beginning of the harvest, another 500 harvesters will arrive in the region. Grain drying complexes will be modernized, and 50 new ones will be commissioned. Br578 billion will be allocated to strengthen the material and technical base of agricultural enterprises in 2010. The Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee demanded that the heads of districts accelerate the pace of work on preparing equipment for spring sowing. The grain acreage in the region in 2010 will increase by almost 100 thousand hectares compared to 2009, reaching 458 thousand hectares, of which 200 thousand hectares are winter crops. The areas under vegetables will generally remain the same. Flax sowing in the region will decrease from 23 thousand hectares to 15 thousand hectares. -0-