Five districts of the Vitebsk region have completed the sowing of winter rapeseed

August 18, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Five districts of the Vitebsk region have completed sowing winter rapeseed, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the regional executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent. As of August 18, winter rapeseed has been sown in the region on an area of over 75 thousand hectares, which is almost 88% of the plan. Farms plan to complete these works by August 20, after which the region is expected to begin mass sowing of winter cereals. Preparatory work is currently underway. Thus, soil has been plowed for winter sowing on an area of 62.5 thousand hectares, or 25% of the plan, with farms plowing more than 5 thousand hectares per day. Glyphosate has been applied to an area of almost 130 thousand hectares, or 64.6% of the plan. Spring rapeseed has been harvested from an area of over 16 thousand tons, which is about 60% of its sown area. Over 14.7 thousand tons of oilseed crop have been threshed with an average yield of 9.1 centners per hectare. Fodder procurement continues in the region. Fodder corn has been mowed on 6.8 thousand hectares (8.4%). Over 141 thousand tons of green mass have been procured with an average yield of 208.5 centners per hectare. In total, taking into account the second cutting of grasses, farms have procured over 787 thousand tons of fodder units. Fodder provision per conventional head of cattle is 17 centners.