Vitebsk region has started sowing flax

Farmers in the Vitebsk region have started sowing flax today, as reported by the committee for agriculture and food of the regional executive committee.

"Favorable temperatures for spring field work have been established in the region, and it rained over the weekend. Today, the region is starting to sow flax. This year, 12,650 hectares are allocated for this crop," the committee reported.

The sowing campaign in the region is gaining momentum. Farmers are sowing spring rapeseed (work completed at 2%), and have begun mass sowing of grain and leguminous crops – sowing units have covered 10% of the planned areas. Dokshitsky district leads the sowing campaign, where 38.7% of the areas have already been sown with grains; in Chashniksky and Beshenkovichsky districts, this work has been completed at 25.4% and 22% respectively. In parallel with sowing, farms are fertilizing winter crops. Overall in the region, fertilizers have been applied to 60%, and Sharkovshchinsky district has fully completed this work. Regarding the structure of sown areas, the grain group in the region has been maintained at almost the same level as last year – 398.5 thousand hectares, or 47.1%. Rapeseed is expected to occupy 106 thousand hectares. The total area

of agricultural crops in the current year in the region will amount to 846 thousand hectares.

Alena Tikhonova – BELTA.