Verkhnedvinsk and Glubokoye districts were the first in the Vitebsk region to fulfill the state order for grain

August 9, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Verkhnedvinsk and Glubokoye districts were the first in the Vitebsk region to fulfill the state order for grain, supplying 11.5 thousand tons and over 6 thousand tons respectively to procurement organizations. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Alina Mironovich, head of the processing industry, procurement and product quality department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Committee.

Farms in the Sharkovshchina, Chashniki, Beshenkovichi districts, as well as the Orsha district, which has the largest grain supply target for state needs (19.7 thousand tons), are close to fulfilling the state order. In general, the region's agrarians have delivered over 130 thousand tons of grain towards the state order, which is 70.5% of the plan.

As of August 9, grain and leguminous crops have been harvested on an area of about 278 thousand hectares in the region, or 63% of the areas to be harvested. About 888.5 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 32 centners per hectare. In terms of harvesting progress, farms in the Chashniki district are leading, having already harvested almost 85% of the areas to be harvested, as well as Verkhnedvinsk (82.5%), Glubokoye (78.5%), Lepel (75.5%), and Sharkovshchina (72.4%) districts.

The highest grain yield (35.5 centners per hectare) is maintained in the farms of the Orsha district. The agrarians of this district also make the largest contribution to the regional harvest, having threshed almost 85.3 thousand tons of grain.

Malting barley has been harvested on an area of about 11.6 thousand hectares, or 47.7% of the sown areas. 33.8 thousand tons of this crop have been threshed with an average yield of 29.1 centners per hectare. Flax has been pulled on an area of almost 12.5 thousand hectares, or about 70% of the plan.

Winter rapeseed crops for the 2012 harvest already occupy over 14 thousand hectares, which is 28% of the planned sowing area for this crop.-0-