Over 6,000 students and pupils will help Vitebsk region farmers harvest the crop

August 14, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Over 6 thousand students and pupils will help Vitebsk region farmers harvest crops, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. Young people will be involved in harvesting potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage, and flax. They will work in all districts of the region, but the largest "youth contingent" will be sent to the fields of Vitebsk, Polotsk, Orsha, Gorodok, Dokshitsy, and Postavy districts. Student teams to assist farmers are already being formed. Students and pupils traditionally head to the region's farms in September, the period of mass harvesting of vegetables and root crops. This year, a total of 4.9 thousand hectares of potatoes, 0.6 thousand hectares of root crops, 1.5 thousand hectares of vegetables, and 19.9 thousand hectares of flax are to be harvested in the Vitebsk region. -0-