Six districts of the Vitebsk region have harvested more than half of the potato fields

September 20, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Six districts of the Vitebsk region have harvested more than half of their potato fields, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

Farmers in Postavy (67%, 2.4 thousand tons harvested), Sharkovshchina (66.5%, 1.6 thousand tons respectively), Polotsk (62.3%, 6.7 thousand tons), Lepel (56.8%, 2.8 thousand tons), Miory (56%, 2.2 thousand tons), and Tolochin (53.7%, 16.4 thousand tons) districts have harvested over 50% of their potato fields. The latter region also shows the highest yield among all districts of the region - 493.1 centners/ha. Yields of over 200 centners/ha are obtained in Vitebsk, Gorodok, Polotsk, and Shumilino districts. The average yield for the region is 213.4 centners/ha.

As of September 20, a total of 66.9 thousand tons of potatoes have been harvested in the Vitebsk region, with 3.1 thousand hectares cleared, which is 47% of all areas. The harvesting is proceeding at a good pace, so most districts will surpass the 50% mark within the next day or two, specialists are confident.

The harvesting of vegetables has also actively begun. Already, 37.9 hectares of cabbage have been harvested (905.3 tons), 101.2 hectares of beets (2.3 thousand tons respectively), 55.9 hectares of carrots (1.3 thousand tons), and 40 hectares of onions (948 tons) have been harvested. -0-