Thirty-three crews in the Vitebsk region threshed more than a thousand tons of grain each

August 8, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. During the harvesting campaign in the Vitebsk region, three combine crews have already threshed over 1.5 thousand tons of grain each, and another 30 crews have surpassed the 1 thousand ton mark in threshing. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the regional committee of the agro-industrial complex workers' trade union.

The leader in threshing is combine operator Vladimir Lapkovsky from OJSC "Prudinki" of the Verkhnedvinsk district, who, as of August 8, has put over 1.7 thousand tons of new crop grain into granaries, having mowed over 400 hectares with a New Holland. Anatoly Zhilinsky from the Lepel Variety Testing Station is slightly behind him. Working on a KZS-1218, the Lepel resident mowed 334 hectares and threshed 1.6 thousand tons.

Among the youth crews, combine operators Sergey Gapanovich and Alexey Pilyushin from OJSC "Prudinki" of the Verkhnedvinsk district are not yielding leadership. The young specialists threshed almost 1.2 thousand tons, working on a KZS-1218. The crew of brothers Alexander and Dmitry Zyabko from the agricultural enterprise "Chashnikskoye" of the same district is about 100 tons behind them.

In total, in the region, grain has been mowed on an area of over 268.5 thousand hectares, which is 60.8% of the areas to be harvested. Over 863.3 thousand tons have been threshed with an average yield of 32.2 centners per hectare, which is 11 centners per hectare higher than the same indicator in 2010. OJSC "Belkovshchina" of the Verkhnedvinsk district was the first in the region to complete harvesting, where about 4 thousand tons of grain were threshed with an average yield of 32.7 centners per hectare.

The highest yield is noted in SPC "Larinovka" of the Orsha district, where during harvesting they obtain 62.1 centners per hectare (72% of the area harvested), which is almost twice the regional average yield. SPC "Kolkhoz "Olgovskoye" of the Vitebsk district is second in yield, whose specialists managed to achieve almost 57 centners per hectare (about 60% of the area). -0-