About 50 thousand tons of flax straw are planned to be harvested in the Vitebsk region

August 24, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotchetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region plan to harvest about 50 thousand tons of flax straw with an average grade of at least one unit this season, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the regional executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

All districts have started harvesting and preparing flax straw. As of August 24, flax straw has been harvested from an area of over 1.1 thousand hectares, and almost 2.7 thousand tons have been prepared with an average grade of 0.95. This work is most actively organized in the Dubrovno district, which has the largest flax sowings in the region with an area of almost 2.3 thousand hectares. Flax growers in the district have prepared about 390 tons of flax straw with an average grade of 1. In six other districts, more than 1 thousand hectares are allocated for this crop. The harvesting of flax straw is planned to be completed by September 20.

Due to weather conditions, farms are not yet able to reach the optimal pace of sowing winter grain crops. In total, these crops have been sown on approximately 1.4 thousand hectares, or 0.5% of the planned area, while not a single hectare could be sown in eight districts over the past day. At the same time, preparatory work for sowing winter crops continues. Thus, about 170 thousand hectares have been plowed for winter crops, or 56.5% of the plan, the task for applying glyphosate has been completed by more than 40%, and almost 450 thousand tons of organic fertilizers have been applied, which is 6.4% of the task.

Grain and leguminous crops have been harvested from almost 397 thousand hectares, or 90% of the areas to be harvested. 1.2 million tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 30.3 centners per hectare.

Corn crops have been mowed on almost 6.3 thousand hectares, which is 6% of the planned harvesting areas. The gross yield of green mass amounted to about 190 thousand tons with an average yield of 300.6 centners per hectare.-0-