Vitebsk region has fulfilled 53% of the plan for grain delivery under state order
The plan for grain delivery to meet the state order in the Vitebsk region has been fulfilled by 53%, as reported by the Committee for Agriculture and Food of the Regional Executive Committee.
Currently, the region is at the peak of the harvest, and to cope with the task as quickly as possible, all districts of the region are actively delivering grain.
The harvest in the region is already underway on the second half of the cultivated areas, and one of the farms, OJSC "Pravda-S" of Dubrovensky district, has completely finished harvesting grain crops. In the near future, the last hectares of the grain fields will be threshed by another 15 agricultural organizations in the region.
As for the yield, among the districts, Verkhnedvinsky district shows the best results with 41.1 centners per hectare, and Orshansky district with 39.3 centners per hectare. Among the farms, the highest yield per hectare is in "Larinovka" of Orshansky district - 65.4 centners per hectare, "Ol'govskoye" of Vitebsky district - 65 centners per hectare, and "Klevtsy" of Lioznensky district - 63.1 centners per hectare.
Every day, the number of thousand-plus combine harvester crews is growing in the region; there are now more than 40 of them. The absolute majority of the harvest frontrunners are working in the fields of Orshansky and Dubrovensky districts. There are thousand-plus workers in Verkhnedvinsky, Senno, Tolochinsky, Dokshitsky, Lioznensky, and other districts.
Overall, about 57% of the cultivated areas have been threshed in the region, with over 700 thousand tons of grain harvested at an average yield of 33 centners per hectare.
Alena Tikhonova, BELTA.