The buckwheat harvest in the Vitebsk region is twice as high as the threshing results of the 2010 harvest

September 12, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. The buckwheat harvest in the Vitebsk region farms has already doubled the total yield of this crop for the 2010 harvest campaign, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Department told BELTA.

As of September 12, a total of 775 hectares have been harvested, which is 58% of the area to be harvested. About 1.2 thousand tons have been threshed, with an average yield of 15.3 centners per hectare, which is 1.5 times higher than last year's figure. Six districts have completed harvesting buckwheat, including Lepel district, which has so far produced the largest buckwheat harvest of 214 tons with a yield of 21.4 centners per hectare (the area under buckwheat was 100 hectares). In addition, all districts have completed millet harvesting, with a yield of over 1.4 thousand tons and an average yield of 14 centners per hectare.

Flax straw has been harvested from an area of 11.7 thousand hectares, which is 65% of the plan, with almost 26 thousand tons of flax straw harvested at an average grade of 1.51. Potatoes have been harvested from almost 1.5 thousand hectares (22.1% of the plan). More than 35 thousand tons of this crop have been dug, with an average yield of 238.2 centners per hectare.

Forage corn has been mowed on almost a third of the planned harvesting areas, with a gross yield of green mass exceeding 1 million tons at an average yield of 332.8 centners per hectare. In total, the region's farms have prepared more than 900 thousand tons of feed units, or more than 71% of the target, with feed availability per conventional head of livestock being almost 20 centners of feed units.-0-