Approximately 1.5 thousand units of equipment will be delivered to farms in the Vitebsk region before the start of spring field work

March 11, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. About 1.5 thousand units of agricultural machinery will be supplied to the farms of the Vitebsk region before the start of spring field work. This was announced to a BELTA correspondent by Boris Efremov, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Committee for Agriculture and Food. All machinery has been distributed among the districts, and its delivery directly to the farms has begun. Farmers of the region will receive 500 machines for applying mineral and organic fertilizers, 150 high-power tractors, of which more than 70 have already been delivered to farms, as well as 250 sprayers and seed treatment machines, 100 combined seeding units, and other machinery. The machinery is purchased on a leasing basis, and issues regarding the payment of down payments are currently being resolved. In total, in 2011, the machine and tractor fleet of the Vitebsk region farms will be replenished with about 4 thousand units of agricultural machinery worth about Br960 billion. -0-