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. More than 50% of potato fields have been harvested by farmers in Postavy (67%, 2.4 thousand tons dug up), Sharkovshchina (66.5% and 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. The latter region also shows the highest yield among all districts of the region - 493.1 centners per hectare. More than 200 centners per hectare are harvested in Vitebsk, Gorodok, Polotsk, and Shumilino districts. The average yield for the region is 213.4 centners per hectare. In general, as of September 20, 66.9 thousand tons of potatoes have been dug up in the Vitebsk region, covering 3.1 thousand hectares, which is 47% of all areas. The harvesting is proceeding at a good pace, so in the next day or two, most districts will cross the 50% mark, specialists are confident. The harvesting of vegetables has also actively begun. 37.9 hectares of cabbage have already been harvested (905.3 tons dug up), 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). -0-