In the Vitebsk region, 67% of flax areas have been harvested

August 20, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. In the Vitebsk region, 67% of flax areas have been harvested, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. As of August 20, 12.2 thousand hectares of flax have been harvested. The daily increase is 2%, or over 400 hectares. A total of 962 tons of this crop have been threshed, and 304 tons of flax straw have been prepared with an average grade of 1.02. Senno District was the first in the region to complete flax harvesting. Polotsk (92% of areas harvested), Lepel and Dubrovno (82% each) districts are close to completing this work. Grass harvesting has somewhat slowed down due to difficult weather conditions and focus on grain harvesting: 62.8% of the second cutting of grass areas have been mowed. The pace of work per day was 0.6%. 15.85 centners of feed units per conventional head of cattle have been prepared, totaling 737.7 thousand tons of feed units for the entire region. The main attention of agricultural workers is focused on harvesting grain and leguminous crops. To date, 341.3 thousand hectares, or 69.9% of the areas, have been harvested in the region. 1 million 83.7 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 31.8 centners per hectare. The leaders of the harvesting campaign are Chashniki District, where 91.1% of the areas have already been harvested with a yield of 34.7 centners per hectare, Glubokoe District (85.9%, 31.5 centners per hectare, respectively), Lepel (79.9%, 30 centners per hectare), Dokshitsy (77.2%, 33 centners per hectare) districts. More than 74% of the areas have also been harvested in Beshenkovichi, Polotsk, and Postavy districts. The highest yields are in Verkhnedvinsk (37.5 centners per hectare) and Orsha (36.1 centners per hectare) districts. -0-