As of the morning of August 19, 62% of the planned area has been harvested in the Vitebsk region.
As of the morning of August 19, 62% of the planned area has been harvested in the Vitebsk region. The yield of grain and leguminous crops exceeds last year's by 5.1 centners per hectare.
The harvesting of winter rapeseed is practically completed. The highest yields are in the Orsha (21.5 centners/ha), Vitebsk (20.3 centners/ha), and Verkhnedvinsk (18.8 centners/ha) districts. For the 2023 harvest, 26.5 thousand hectares of winter rapeseed have been sown (44.2% of the planned area).
Flax has been pulled from 11 thousand hectares (92.2%), and 3.2 thousand tons of flax straw with an average grade of 1.02 have been prepared.
The procurement of feed from the second mowing is ongoing. 87.9 thousand hectares have been mowed (88%), and 14.47 centners of feed units per conventional head of cattle have been procured (+0.55 centners of feed units compared to last year's figure).