Vitebsk region has begun selective sowing of winter rapeseed

July 26, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region have begun the selective sowing of winter rapeseed for the 2011 harvest, Ivan Fyodorov, deputy chairman of the regional executive committee's agriculture and food committee, told a BELTA correspondent. This year, it is planned to sow winter rapeseed on an area of about 86 thousand hectares. Farms in ten districts of the region have joined the sowing campaign. As of July 26, almost 950 hectares have been sown. This week, the region will move to mass sowing of this crop, Ivan Fyodorov noted. The harvesting of winter rapeseed is nearing completion in the region, with almost 44 thousand hectares mown (about 97.3%). More than 49 thousand tons of rapeseed oilseeds have been threshed at an average yield of 11.3 centners per hectare.