All districts of the Vitebsk region have started sowing winter rapeseed

August 10, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. All districts of the Vitebsk region have started sowing winter rapeseed, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. As of August 10, 7.5 thousand hectares of this crop have been sown in the region out of the planned 54.8 thousand hectares, which is 14% of the area. The progress of sowing varies across regions. For example, in the Beshenkovichi district, farmers are close to completing this work (1.7 thousand hectares sown, or 76% of the area), while in the Braslav, Dokshitsky, Dubrovensky, Miory and Shumilinsky districts, only 1% to 3% has been sown. Plowing of soil for winter rapeseed is nearing completion: 53.2 thousand hectares have been plowed, or 97% of the area. Farmers in the Beshenkovichi, Verkhnedvinsk, Vitebsk, Glubokoe, Gorodok, Dubrovno, Liozno, Miory, Orsha, Polotsk, Postavy, Senno, Tolochin, Ushachi, Chashniki, Sharkovshchina and Shumilino districts have completely finished plowing. In total, 25% of the area, or 74.8 thousand hectares, has been plowed for winter crops in the Vitebsk region to date. Glyphosate-containing preparations for sowing winter crops have been applied to 86.7 thousand hectares (43% of the area). In more than half of the areas, this work has been carried out in the Beshenkovichi, Verkhnedvinsk, Glubokoe, Dubrovno, Lepel, Miory, Polotsk, Rossony, Chashniki and Sharkovshchina districts. In addition, the harvesting of seed grasses of cereal grasses has been completed in the region. The threshed grain (in terms of net weight) amounted to 2.1 thousand tons with an average yield of 2 centners per hectare.