Eleven incentive prizes for the leaders of the harvesting campaign have been established in the Vitebsk region

In the competition, combine harvester crews and young agricultural organization workers (members of youth crews and drivers involved in grain hauling, not older than 31 years) will participate. The recipients of awards in the form of commemorative diplomas and prizes will be determined during the harvest. Thus, the crew that is the first to thresh 1 thousand tons of grain will be awarded a prize of 10 base units; for overcoming the 1.5 thousand tons mark, the crew will also receive a reward of 10 base units. The next milestones for encouragement are threshing 2 thousand tons and 2.5 thousand tons of grain, the achievement of which will be marked by prizes of 12 base units each. The crew of a grain harvesting combine that is the first to overcome the 3 thousand tons of grain mark will receive a reward of 15 base units. Young specialists will be able to compete for six prizes established by the youth affairs department of the regional executive committee together with the agro-industrial complex trade union.

July 20, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Eleven incentive prizes for frontrunners of the 2011 harvest campaign have been established in the Vitebsk region based on the results of an announced operational competition, the regional committee of the agro-industrial complex workers' trade union informed a BELTA correspondent.

In the competition, combine harvester crews and young agricultural organization workers (members of youth crews and drivers involved in grain hauling, not older than 31 years) will participate.

The recipients of awards in the form of commemorative diplomas and prizes will be determined during the harvest. Thus, the crew that is the first to thresh 1 thousand tons of grain will be awarded a prize of 10 base units; for overcoming the 1.5 thousand tons mark, the crew will also receive a reward of 10 base units. The next milestones for encouragement are threshing 2 thousand tons and 2.5 thousand tons of grain, the achievement of which will be marked by prizes of 12 base units each. The crew of a grain harvesting combine that is the first to overcome the 3 thousand tons of grain mark will receive a reward of 15 base units.

Young specialists will be able to compete for six prizes established by the regional executive committee's youth affairs department in conjunction with the agro-industrial complex trade union. Members of the youth crew who are the first to thresh 1,000 tons of grain will be awarded prizes of 6 and 7 base units. For the first result of 1,500 tons and 2,000 tons, the reward will also be 7 base units (senior combine operator) and 6 base units (combine operator). A combine crew that threshes 3,000 tons of grain will receive a prize of 12 base units. Among young drivers, the winners will be workers who are the first to transport 1,000 tons and 2,000 tons of the new harvest grain. Prizes of 7 base units each have been established for them.

The regional competition is designed to motivate workers towards timely and high-quality crop harvesting, increase the efficiency of agricultural machinery use, and is also aimed at promoting advanced production experience and popularizing agricultural professions among youth.

All districts in the region have joined the harvesting of grain and leguminous crops. As of July 20, almost 8,000 hectares have been mown, which is 1.8% of the total area to be harvested. 25.7 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 32.1 centners per hectare. Winter rapeseed has been harvested from an area of 3.1 thousand hectares, or 17.5% of the plan, with about 4,000 tons threshed, and an average yield of 12.5 centners per hectare.-0-