Six districts of the Vitebsk region have started sowing winter rapeseed

August 2, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA/. Six districts of the Vitebsk region have started sowing winter rapeseed, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Department informed a BELTA correspondent.

As of August 2, this crop has been sown on an area of about 550 hectares, or 1.1% of the plan. Farms in Beshenkovichi, Lepel, Sharkovshchina, Tolochin, Chashniki, and Senno districts have joined the sowing campaign. This year, it is planned to allocate about 50 thousand hectares for winter rapeseed. In addition, all districts continue plowing the soil for winter grain crops and applying glyphosate, and have also begun applying organic fertilizers for winter sowing.

At the same time, the main volume of work is being carried out on harvesting the 2011 grain crop. In general, across the region, grain and leguminous crops have been mowed on an area of about 172 thousand hectares, or almost 38% of the areas to be harvested. More than 530 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of about 31 centners per hectare. Chashniki district, where grain crops have been mowed on almost 56% of the area to be harvested, and Glubokoe district (50.4%) are leading in the harvest. The highest yield is in the farms of Orsha (almost 36 centners per hectare) and Beshenkovichi (34.5 centners per hectare) districts. Traditionally, the largest threshing is obtained by farmers in Orsha (as of August 2 - more than 54.5 thousand tons) and Vitebsk (40.3 thousand tons) districts. In fulfillment of the state order, the region's farms have delivered almost 80 thousand tons of grain, which is about 43% of the plan. Flax has been pulled on an area of more than 6.6 thousand hectares, or almost 36% of the plan.-0-