All districts of the Vitebsk region have started harvesting malting barley

July 29, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. All districts of the Vitebsk region have started harvesting malting barley, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the regional executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

As of July 29, about 800 hectares of this crop have been harvested, which is 3.4% of its total sown area. About 2.3 thousand tons have been threshed, and the average yield exceeds 27.5 centners per hectare. This year, the sown area of malting barley in the region has been expanded 3.5 times to 24.3 thousand hectares. Farms are to fulfill an increased state order for this crop, which is set at 30 thousand tons and has been increased 3.5 times compared to 2010.

In general, across the region, grain and leguminous crops have been harvested from an area of almost 106 thousand hectares, or about 23.5% of the areas to be harvested. More than 328.5 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 31 centners per hectare. Chashniki district, where grain crops have been harvested from almost 41% of the area to be harvested, and Gluboksky district (36.1%) are leading in the harvest. The highest yield is in the farms of Orsha (35.5 centners per hectare) and Beshenkovichi (35 centners per hectare) districts. Farms in the region have delivered almost 42 thousand tons of grain towards the state order, which is about 22.6% of the plan. Flax has been pulled from an area of over 4 thousand hectares, or almost 22% of the plan.-0-